ACCESS & PRIVILEGES

All electronic resources subscribed and available through the University Library webpage are for academic use only and are governed by license agreements. It is the responsibility of individual users to ensure that e-resources are used for personal, educational and research purposes only. Most of the agreements specify prohibited uses of the licensed content, some of them are listed below:

• Systematic or programmatic downloading, preservation, and printing are prohibited. For example, you cannot download entire issue of a journal or print out several copies of the same article.
• Electronic distribution of content is also restricted although the specific restrictions vary from publisher to publisher. It may be permissible to forward an article to another colleague in your own institution by email, however, transmitting an article to someone outside of the institution, or to a large group of recipients, a mailing list, or an electronic bulletin board, is not allowed.
• You cannot post the PDF of an article on your website. The publishers' main concern is that people outside of your campus network should not be able to access resources licensed by your institution. However, a researcher can post a pre-print of an article written by him/her.
• As with any kind of scholarly communication, a researcher can use phrases or quotes from other articles and cite the source of information. However, a researcher is prohibited from using large chunk of information (paragraphs and chapters) from an article or from a chapter in a book.
• Posting the publisher's version or PDF of an article to an open class website is prohibited (instead, post the URL to the article which will allow only authorized users access).

Publishers track the use of their electronic resources in terms of number of downloads made by subscribing institution. Misuse, if any, is notified to the subscribing institution with details of kinds of violations and institution is expected to take action. The publisher also suspends the access to e-resource pending suitable action by subscribing institution. The access is stopped not only for journals where license agreement was violated but for all journals by the same publisher. Moreover, the access is suspended not only for the individual violator but for the entire institution.

It is the responsibility of individual users to ensure that the use of electronic resources does not breach the terms and conditions specified in the license agreements. Licenses vary from publisher to publisher; however, the general principles are as follows:

Permitted

Not Permitted

Viewing, downloading, copying, printing and saving a copy of search results. Viewing, downloading, copying, printing and saving individual articles. Using e-resources for scholarly, educational or scientific research, teaching, private study and clinical purposes. Sending a copy of an article to another authorized user (i.e. current faculty, students or staff). Posting the URL to the publisher's version of the article on a class website (publisher links will allow only authorized users access)

Use of robots or intelligent agents to do systematic, bulk or automatic downloading is not permitted Systematic downloading or printing of entire journal issues or volumes, or large portions of other e-resources is not permitted Using e-resources for commercial gain is not permitted (i.e. reselling, redistributing or republishing licensed content) Transmitting, disseminating or otherwise making online content available to unauthorized users (i.e. sending to mailing lists or electronic bulletin boards) is not permitted Posting the publisher's version or PDF of an article to an open class website is not permitted (instead, post the URL to the article which will allow only authorized users access)

Who can access TNPESU Libraries?

LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP CARD HOLDERS

• Faculty, Research Scholars, Students and staff.
• Part-time Research Scholars
• Postdoctoral Scholars
• Temporary/casual staff

CAMPUS ID CARD HOLDERS

• Summer Program Students
• School of Distance Education Students
• TNPESU Alumni

UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED COLLEGES

• Affiliated College Faculty, Scholar & Students
• University visiting scholars
• Fee-based library membership cardholders

VISITORS

• Visitors must register and present a government-issued photo ID. Registered visitors may use library facilities for one day at a fee-based.
• The fee is prescribed in the Library services link.