OhioLINK Acceptable Use Policy

AUTHORIZED USERS: Students, faculty, and staff of participating Ohio academic institutions.

AUTHORIZED USE: This content is available only for the individual educational and research purposes of Authorized Users.

Examples of allowed uses:

1. Generally, you may temporarily store on local media for subsequent viewing any content (record/image/audio/video) available from this resource, and later display it on screen or print it (if applicable) on paper.
2. You may create links to this content through a Course Management System (e.g. WebCT, Blackboard) or other campus web pages.
3. You may print a copy of any text records retrieved as you use these pages.

Examples of prohibited uses:

1. You may not systematically transmit (either on paper or electronically) content from these resources to anyone not involved in education or research at an OhioLINK institution. This includes but is not limited to mounting images, audio, or video on web servers that allow access to un-authorized users.
2. You may not systematically or permanently cache content on local media.
3. You may not use a spider or crawler program to capture data from this resource.
4. You may not use this content for commercial purposes.

This database is provided by purchase or lease through your campus library and the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK). Use of this database is governed by the terms and conditions of the license agreement between OhioLINK and the content provider (which may be a private commercial company, professional association, government agency, academic institution, or non-profit organization). The points above offer general guidelines for acceptable use of licensed content. Individual license agreements between OhioLINK and the content provider take precedence over these general guidelines.

If you have questions about permitted uses for any content on OhioLINK web pages, please contact us through our feedback form.