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Electronic materials - conditions of use

The electronic materials (resources) include reference databases, electronic journals, books, reference books and dictionaries. Some of the resources are purchased through the national FinELib program, some through the library's own bilateral agreements. The agreements define who is allowed access to the resources and how, and what actions are prohibited. General guidelines are given below.

Who may access the resources?

The resources may be used by the students, researchers, teachers and other employees of Aalto University from computers connected to the School's network to support studies, research and teaching activities. Outside the network area access requires logging on to the university's network [instructions]. Other customers at the library may use most of the resources on computers reserved for the purpose.

What is permitted?

  • Browsing
  • Searching
  • Printing and saving of a reasonable amount of search results for personal study and research
  • E-mailing material to a colleague as a part of scientific communication
  • Use in non-commercial teaching material

What is prohibited?

  • Systematic or considerable copying or saving of resources
  • Commercial use of resources
  • Use of programs which automatically search or rake for resources (spider, crawler, robot)
  • Modifying, applying, moving, translating or creating resources based on the resources provided by the service or any other action violating the copyright restrictions of the resources
  • Creating a new collection from the materials provided by the service by systematically saving the whole or parts of the material.