Notice of Copyright/Use Restrictions for Electronic Resources

Access to electronic resources offered by the Scientific Library is restricted to National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-F) employees in accordance with conditions specified in license agreements established between the NCI-F Scientific Library and / or NIH Library and electronic resource providers. Should a provider detect a breach or violation of terms specified in an agreement, it is possible that access for the entire institution could be terminated.

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General Copyright Restrictions

• Employees using these resources are authorized to print or download full or partial results of searches for personal or internal business or research use, as specified in the electronic resources' license agreements. Users may not systematically download and/or archive materials from electronic resources.
• Users must not share access with, perform searches for, or provide results to non-NCI-F users, i.e. collaborators at other universities or research centers. Employees are not authorized to distribute data retrieved from the electronic resources in any form (printed, electronically relayed, posted to public list services, bulletin boards or chat rooms, or magnetically stored) to, for the benefit of, anyone who is not an NCI-F employee. Employees are not permitted to create derivative databases from the resources except as noted above. Restrictions may vary according to the resources' producers/publishers.
• When in doubt, consult the publisher for permission.

Useful Copyright Resources

• American Chemical Society Publications - Copyright Information for Chemists
• Association of Research Libraries - Copyright and Intellectual Property
• CENDI - FAQs About Copyright and Computer Software (PDF) - issues affecting the U.S. Government with special emphasis on open source software. CENDI is an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information (STI) managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies.
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) - guidelines on dealing with plagiarism, retractions, and other ethical challenges.
• Copyright & Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries
• Copyright Basics: Fair Use - includes a checklist to decide whether use of content falls under Fair Use guidelines.
• Copyright Society of the USA
• "Copyrighting Right," by C. Wanjek and S. Cooperstein, an article from NIH Catalyst on how to avoid common copyright violations in scientific presentations and on the Web.
• "Crash Course in Copyright" - from the University of Texas Libraries.
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Summary)(PDF)
• HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI): Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing
• NCI Technology Transfer Office: Copyright/Publication
• NIH Copyright - resources for NIH authors.
• PubMed Central (PMC) Copyright Notice - information about general copyright restrictions that apply to material available through the PubMed Central (PMC) site with links to some Publisher Specific Copyright Information.
• United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)/Berne

Date Last Updated: 1/19/2022