Electronic Resources Use Policy
Electronic resources available through the UC Davis Library are licensed by the university for noncommercial use by UC faculty, staff, students and onsite users, for educational, research or clinical purposes only.
The terms and conditions of the UC and UC Davis agreements with the vendors and publishers of these electronic resources regulate their use. Additional restrictions may apply to onsite users of certain databases. For detailed terms and conditions governing the use of a particular electronic resource, email the library’s Electronic Resources Support Team specifying the electronic resource and your affiliation with UC Davis.
Conditions of use include, but are not limited to, restrictions on copying, republishing, altering, redistributing, and reselling the information contained therein. Users are not permitted to resell texts from licensed sources to non-subscribing individuals, institutions or organizations.
Electronic resource providers may take action when their monitoring systems suggest a breach of use terms. This action may include blocking an individual user, denying access to the entire campus, or taking further legal action. This may occur in circumstances such as:
- Excessive or systematic downloading (e.g., attempting to download all of the articles in an online encyclopedia, downloading all of the articles in a volume of a journal, downloading a large amount of content over a short period of time).
- Use of automation (robots, scraping, spiders, AI agents, etc.) to programmatically download content.
- Downloading content or reverse engineering a content provider’s platform in order to create a derivative database, make content available on public websites, or otherwise infringe intellectual property rights.
It is the responsibility of individual authorized users to ensure that their use of electronic resources does not breach the terms and conditions specified in these license agreements.
Users must observe applicable intellectual property laws, including United States copyright law.