Notice of Copyright/Use Restrictions for Electronic Resources

Access to electronic resources offered by the Scientific Library is restricted to NCI-Frederick employees in accordance with conditions specified in license agreements established between the NCI-Frederick Scientific Library and / or NIH Library and electronic resources' producers/publishers. Should a publisher detect a breach or violation of terms specified in an agreement, it is possible that access for the entire institution could be terminated. Please consult the Library's Publishers list  for links to a selection of individual Publisher Copyright Policies.

General Copyright Restrictions

• NCI-Frederick employees using these resources are authorized to print or download full or partial results of searches for personal or internal business or research use, as specified in the electronic resources' license agreements. Users may not systematically download and/or archive materials from electronic resources.

• NCI-Frederick users must not share access with, perform searches for, or provide results to non-NCI-Frederick users, i.e. collaborators at other universities or research centers. NCI-Frederick employees are not authorized to distribute data retrieved from the electronic resources in any form (printed, electronically relayed, posted to public list services, bulletin boards or chat rooms, or magnetically stored) to, for the benefit of, anyone who is not an NCI-Frederick employee. NCI-Frederick employees are not permitted to create derivative databases from the resources except as noted above. Restrictions may vary according to the resources' producers/publishers.

• When in doubt, consult the publisher for permission.

Scientific Library Online Journals

Publishers

Useful Copyright Resources

• American Chemical Society Publications - Copyright Information for Chemists

• Association of Research Libraries - Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies / Public Policies

• Copyright & Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries

• Copyright Society of the USA

• Digital Images and Fair Use Web Sites (Maryly Snow) - article by Maryly Snow, Librarian, University of California at Berkely.

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Summary)

• Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright - compiled by the CENDI Copyright Task Group.

• International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)

• University of Texas System - "Crash Course in Copyright"

• United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress