1. Library electronic resources refer to formally published online resources, such as databases, electronic journals, and e-books, for which Southern Medical University Library (including other units within the university) has purchased campus network usage rights from domestic or international publishers or database providers.

 

2. Library electronic resources are to be used reasonably only by authorized users. Authorized users include: officially registered university students, faculty, staff, visiting scholars, and visiting instructors. Reasonable use refers to authorized users searching, browsing, downloading, or printing electronic resources at normal speeds within the campus network for the purposes of personal study, teaching, or scientific research. Authorized users must comply with the contracts established between the library and domestic/foreign publishers.

 

3. To ensure the normal and orderly use of campus network electronic resources and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the university and the publishers, the following actions are defined as violations according to relevant regulations:

·Continuously, intensively, or downloading electronic resources in large batches (exceeding normal reading speed, e.g., downloading over one hundred articles within one hour is considered a violation; determination of violations is generally based on misuse reports provided by publishers);

·Using software tools to download electronic resources;

·Providing obtained documents to individuals outside the university for illegal commercial profit;

·Unauthorized provision of proxy services or large-scale document delivery to any unauthorized users;

·Granting the legal access rights of electronic resources to any other unauthorized users (e.g., renting a campus network account to an external individual);

·Other acts of illegal use that do not comply with Chinese intellectual property laws.

 

4. Measures for Handling Violations of Electronic Resource Use

If violations are discovered, the library will collaborate with relevant university departments to investigate and impose appropriate penalties on the violator based on the severity of the offense. The violator shall bear all legal consequences arising therefrom.

Specific handling measures:

· The violator must provide a written statement and self-criticism.

· The violator must delete the improperly downloaded data under the supervision of responsible personnel from the library or relevant units.

· The violator's library privileges will be suspended for two months.

· For more severe violations, the library will issue a notice regarding the violator and the violation.

· If the violation causes financial loss to the university (e.g., generating significant international traffic fees for proxy servers accessing electronic resources), the violator shall bear compensation responsibility.

· If the violation leads to intellectual property disputes, the violator must personally assume all legal liabilities arising therefrom.

· For serious offenses including but not limited to the following, in addition to the above measures, the university may also suspend or terminate the violator's campus network gateway account based on the circumstances: continuing violations after receiving a warning; privately setting up proxy servers or providing campus network accounts to unauthorized users, resulting in misuse of electronic resources; etc.