Terms and conditions of use for electronic bibliographic resources
SISSA users can access electronic resources either through the internal network or the VPN connection (with SISSA credentials); external and “walk-in” users can access electronic resources using the loandesk terminals. Only a few administrative resources can be accessed through UN/PW credentials.
Please note that commercial electronic resources subscribed by SISSA (e-journals, e-books, bibliographic databases) are protected by national and international copyright laws (Legge a protezione del diritto d'autore e di altri diritti connessi al suo esercizio L. 22.04.1941 n. 633, aggiornato dalla L. 30.12.2023, n. 214).
SISSA users’ rights may vary also according to different publishers’ License Agreements.
In most instances users may:
- browse Tables of Content and Abstracts for all Electronic Products;
- download html and pdf full text of subscribed products;
- download, search, retrieve, display and view, copy and save to a secure network or other electronic storage media and store or print out single copies of individual articles or items for their own personal use, scholarly, educational or scientific research or internal business use;
- transmit such material to a third-party colleague in hard copy or electronically for personal use or scholarly, educational, or scientific research or professional use but in no case re-sale or systematic distribution;
- include such materials in course packs, (please check specific licenses if Lecture Notes have to be published).
Generally, users may not:
- copy, distribute, transmit or otherwise reproduce, sell or resell material from subscribed electronic resources;
- store such material in any form or medium in a retrieval system;
- use images or figures since they might be the copyright of a third party (please check with the publisher);
- download and/or store entire issues or volumes;
- transmit subscribed material directly or indirectly, for use in any paid service such as document delivery or list serve, or for use by any information brokerage or for systematic distribution, whether or not for commercial or non-profit use or for a fee or free of charge;
- use any automated system such as robots, spiders, offline readers etc.
Electronic products licensed with Creative Commons licenses should be used according to the relevant license About CC Licenses - Creative Commons
Authors of products published in commercial journals or books may archive their products according to the Agreement they have signed (please refer to Welcome to Sherpa Romeo - Sherpa Services for details).
Users are strongly advised to check whether specific uses (distribution for noncommercial educational purposes, self-archiving, use of images, etc.) are actually permitted or permitted with limitations (for example only upon Publisher’s explicit written permission). Detailed information may be found on the publisher’s website. Please be aware that licenses signed through CRUI might be less restrictive.
If any illegal use of subscribed resources is detected by the publishers, access to their resources may be immediately suspended at their discretion penalizing the entire scientific community at SISSA.
Please feel free to ask for help to the library staff for any doubt library@sissa.it or journals@sissa.it
Updated : June 2024