Breaching copyright or the license agreements could result in the publisher withdrawing the University’s access to resources.

Licenses for many e-resources restrict access to academic staff and students (of I, II and III cycles) of Poznan University of Technology.

Readers may:

1. search, access and view e-resources;
2. copy materials (including making computer printouts and copies saved to portable devices/drives) and store the copies for as long as it might be necessary for their individual use – in accordance with the provisions of copyright regulations and license agreements;
3. use e-resources for non-commercial research/private study only;
4. include parts of materials into their presentations with clear and visible reference/citation notes and/or “reproduced with permission of the publisher” notice;
5. include parts of materials into a publication – in accordance with license agreements (if applicable).

Readers are prohibited from:

1. creating local archives using e-resources provided by the Library (printing out or saving them on portable devices/drives full volumes of e-publications);
2. using spider software for automatic downloads and copying texts routinely, as under the terms of license agreement, printing out and/or copying texts is permitted for non-commercial research/private study only;
3. deleting and/or changing any notices and/or disclaimers providing information on copyright and its owners and other limitation of liability clauses that appear on materials or the screen;
4. selling, reselling, renting and transferring information of any kind to unauthorized persons.