E-resources terms of use
The Vauban University Library – Université Catholique de Lille has signed up for licences with scientific publishers to give you access to the best resources for teaching and research purposes in the academic field.These resources are protected by intellectual property law.
The contractual terms negotiated by the Vauban University Library – Université Catholique de Lille with the publishers of these resources require you to respect certain rules which you must accept before using the resources. Once you have signed, the present terms of use is enforceable against you.
I / Limited access for academic use (teaching and research)
> Accessing the resources is restricted to teaching and research purposes only. Do not overuse these resources, downloading too many documents will result in the suspension of your account.
> As a member of the Vauban University Library and of the Université Catholique de Lille which you are contractually bound to, the e-resources use must be personal and linked to the courses you are taught and/or to the missions and research entrusted to you.
> Therefore, your attention is drawn in particular to the fact that no commercial, promotional or lucrative use of these resources is permitted.
> Such commercial, profit-oriented or promotional (non-exhaustive list) use corresponds to the use of resources for financial gain through sale, resale, loan, transfer, rental, or to benefit from a cost reduction.
> This includes, more broadly, any other form of resources exploitation, and especially the consultation or use of resources, either individually or as part of a job, within the framework of a provision of paid services (e.g., but not limited to lawyers, jurists, chartered accountants, external auditors, etc.).
II / Access only for the duration of the enrolment or the teaching contract
> The access to the resources is granted for the duration of your enrolment in one of the institutions of the Catholic University of Lille or of the contract which binds you (or the duration necessary for the execution of this contract) to the higher education institution, part of the Catholic University of Lille and member of the Vauban University Library.
> You agree not to access or attempt to access all or part of the resources subscribed to by the Vauban University Library beyond these authorised access periods.
III / Access control
> The Vauban University Library - Catholic University of Lille reserves the right to regularly check your compliance with the access permissions you have been granted.
> These checks are done with an identification and authentication system used by the Vauban University Library - Catholic University of Lille, which reserves the right to use any other authentication system that may be developed in the future.
> You are expressly informed that your non-compliance with these terms may result in temporary or permanent suspension of all access to the resources by the Vauban University Library - Catholic University of Lille.
> To enforce the publishers’ rights, the Vauban University Library - Catholic University of Lille may also need to communicate to the competent authorities any data allowing your identification for the purpose of determining and prosecuting violations of the publishers' exclusive intellectual property rights.
IV / Responsabilities
> You are personally and exclusively responsible for accessing the resources using the login and password you were given. You are not allowed to communicate them to third parties.
> You further agree to abide by any copyright or other restrictions imposed by the publishers on access to or use of the resources.
> You release the Vauban University Library - Université Catholique de Lille from any condemnation that could be pronounced against it on the basis of an infringement, by you, of the publishers’ exclusive intellectual property rights.
Last update 06/10/2021