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Cataloger's Desktop

Filed under GSLIS Administrative
Posted by GSLIS, November 08, 2005
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To GSLIS users of Cataloger’s Desktop Web
From: Linda Watkins, GSLIS Librarian

The Library of Congress has reported to us that recent use of the Cataloger’s Desktop Web has shown “a pattern of activity…which may indicate inefficient usage or infringement of the subscription.” This usage may be inefficient use, e.g. paging through instead of jumping right a document or downloading or copying which would be an infringement. Please review the database Quick Tip available at http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/tips/search/index.html to improve searching efficiency, and that our agreement forbids downloading or copying files.

We have been warned that if individuals access the product in a manner that violates the Cataloger’s Desktop subscription agreement, our account may be suspended.

The terms and conditions of our licenses agreement state the following:

Usage Rights:

o During any 24-hour period, Subscriber may print up to twenty (20) screens of Service content per Solo User, or twenty (20) screens of Service content multiplied by the number of Concurrent Users, as applicable.

Prohibited Uses - Subscriber and Authorized Users may not:

o Make local electronic copies of all or any part of Service content beyond what is required for normal functioning of Web browser software and simple copying-and-pasting of up to ten (10) consecutive lines of text at a time and not exceeding a total of three hundred (300) lines of text per day, per Solo User or per the number of Concurrent Users, as applicable.

o Use all or any part of Service content for any commercial use, except as permitted by Section II.A.

o Distribute all or any part of Service content to anyone other than the Subscriber’s Authorized Users.

o In any way modify, reverse engineer or create derivative works from Service content, or the software used in this site, which is provided under a license agreement between NextPage Corporation and the Publisher.

o Permit access to the Service by persons who are not Authorized Users.

o Engage in activity that may burden Publisher’s server(s), such as computer programs that automatically download content, commonly known as web robots, spiders, crawlers, wanderers or accelerators.