General terms of use for e-resources

Clients of the Tampere University of Applied Sciences Library have access to the e-resources through the computers in the library. TAMK staff and students have the right to use the e-resources that are available through the library both in TAMK and at home for study, teaching and research purposes.

Terms of use for individual resources

General terms of use

The customers of TAMK library have access to the e-resources through the customer computers in the library. TAMK staff and students have the right to use the available e-resources in support of their study, teaching and research at home or in TAMK.

The detailed terms of use can be found in http://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/FinELib/FinELib-wiki

You have the right to the following:

- information search and browsing
- reasonable photocopying of search results or articles
- reasonable copying of search results or articles for example to a USB memory stick
- adding a link to an e-article on the web page of a study course
- sending one copy in the name of scientific communication
- reasonable printing and saving of e-books or whole text resources

It is forbidden to:

- use any part of the resources for commercial purposes
- print or copy a whole book, thesis etc.
- to copy original material like an e-article to the web page of a study course
- to distribute material to anybody without the right to use it
- to alter or to make spin-off products from the material
- to search or save material by automated methods

Links to e-resources - use a persistent URL

- persistent URL is often found in the article data
- URL in the address field of an Internet browser is not a persistent link
- term used for a persistent link may differ between e-resources, It can be Document URL (ProQuest) or Persistent link to this record (Ebsco), for instance
- some e-resources allow you to create a persistent link to a search, like Display link to search (Ebsco)

Examples of links that open in the TAMK network

- "DE "CONTRACTING out" and DE "SERVICE industries"" (information retrieval from a link)
- "Pynttari, V.; Makinen, R.; Lilja, J.; Pekkanen, V.; Mantysalo, M.; Mansikkamaki, P.; Kivikoski, M.: High-frequency characteriazation and simulation of conductor loss in printable electrinics technology" (link to an article)
 - "Standard Handbook of Machine Design" (link to an e-book)
- "Harvard Business Review" (link to an e-journal)

 


Updated 04/20/2010