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Using Electronic Resources: Use Policy for Electronic Resources

Using Electronic Resources




        

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      library@iimb.ac.in
      librarian@iimb.ac.in
      mihir.panda@iimb.ac.in
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Use Policy for Electronic Resources

All the licensed resources are subscribed or acquired to support the teaching and research activities of the institute. Hence its usage is usually restricted to the current students, faculty, and staff.   

Publications, databases, and associated content are copyright protected. For using the content as pre the terms of the contract signed with the publishers, please visit the page http://library.iimb.ac.in/gm/cer

Permitted uses:

  • Accessing, searching, and browsing the database or publication.
  • Printing or downloading a limited number of articles, records, abstracts, or parts of chapters for personal use, teaching or research
  • Transmitting to a colleague (in hard copy or electronically) minimal, insubstantial amounts of licensed content for personal use or scholarly, educational, or scientific research or professional use but in no case for re-sale.
  • Using, with appropriate credit, figures, tables and brief excerpts from content in your own scientific, scholarly and educational works.

Prohibited uses:

  • Use of robots or scripts to access licensed materials.
  • Printing or downloading excessive portions of a resource, such as entire electronic books, entire issues of journals or excessive numbers of search results.
  • Selling copies of content printed or downloaded.
  • Redistributing restricted electronic information to nonsubscribers or to nonsubscribing institutions. For example, posting material downloaded from these resources to a website or using these resources for commercial purposes.