User License Agreement for SciFinder Scholar
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If you need to use SciFinder Scholar beyond the agreement boundaries contact
the University Key Contact: Barbara Cockrell, Associate Dean for Collections
and Technical Services 269-387-5143, barbara.cockrell@wmich.edu for
clarification and to obtain CAS permission.
By using SciFinder Scholar you have agreed to the following statements:
- I am a current faculty or administrative staff member, or officially registered
student of Western Michigan University.
- I will use SciFinder Scholar only for my own academic research done in the
course of pursuing my degree, or in instructing my students, or, in the course
of my own research funded by the government or a non-profit foundation and intended
for publication in the publicly available literature.
- I will NOT use SciFinder Scholar for commercial research; for example, research
that is done under a funding or consultant contract where the results are delivered
to a for-profit organization, or for research that involves patentability searching.
If I require SciFinder for commercial purposes, I will have the search done using
a commercial account by contacting the librarian responsible for chemistry searches
on campus, by contacting CAS and having them perform a search for me, or by acquiring
and using the commercial SciFinder product.
- I will use my search results in the ordinary course of academic research
and acknowledge that I may store search results in electronic form for the duration
of research projects, provided that at any one time, I store no more than 5,000
records. I may share search results in a limited, reasonable way with other Western
Michigan University students or faculty working on the same project, but I will
not aggregate my electronic search results with those of anyone else. I will
delete stored records when I no longer need them for the relevant research project,
or after the completion of my degree program, whichever occurs first. If I need
to use search results beyond what is described here, I will contact my Key Contact
to discuss and to obtain CAS permission. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I AM NOT PERMITTED
TO DISTRIBUTE ANY CAS DATA OR SCIFINDER SCHOLAR, FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN OR OTHERWISE,
OUTSIDE WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY OR TO THIRD PARTIES.
- I acknowledge that Western Michigan University has entered into a license
agreement with CAS to provide me with access to SciFinder Scholar, and that violation
of the license by any user could result in a termination of the license for all
users.
- I will contact the University's Key Contact with any questions related to
the use of SciFinder Scholar.
The Key Contact person at Western Michigan University Libraries for SciFinder
Scholar is: Barbara Cockrell, Associate Dean for Collections and
Technical Services 269-387-5143, barbara.cockrell@wmich.edu
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