From: "Pennington, Buddy D." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 14:13:57 +0000

Hi Christopher,

I appreciate the public message on this and applaud Wiley's efforts at
informing as many libraries as possible about this change. Will our
sales reps be getting in touch with us about getting this change added
to our license agreements? There is a statement regarding users being
able to register with Wiley and create "My Profile" page. If this
limit affects those individuals I think the limit should be included
in the license agreement statement.

Buddy Pennington
Director of Collections and Access Management
University of Missouri--Kansas City
308 Miller Nichols Library
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
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-----Original Message-----

[MOD Note:  We would welcome further news from Wiley staff about the
future rollout of download limits for accesses from IP addresses and
other means.  Also, are these actions aimed at systematic downloading,
or downloads without payment?  These are not identical things.  Thank
you.]]

From: Wiley Online Library <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:54 PM

Notice of user download limits
Wiley Online Library

Dear Colleague:

As you are aware, publishers' and other content providers'
Intellectual Property (IP) continues to be threatened by a growing
number of deliberate attempts to gain access without paying. These
actors then further weaken our business by posting Wiley's and our
society partners' content on free sites. This takes place every day,
from all parts of the world.

Wiley is a key player in industry groups that have and continue to
take all available actions to prevent this. Yet while we strive to
remain customer-friendly and to provide seamless access to
appropriately licensed content, we have to take appropriate actions on
our own to insure that our IP assets are protected to the best degree
possible.

We need to take whatever actions we deem necessary to prevent this.
Therefore, effective immediately, there will be a limit on downloading
activity by registered users on Wiley Online Library. These users will
be restricted to 100 full-text article/chapter/encyclopedia entries
per day based on the previous day's usage. Currently customers who
access content via IP authentication will not be limited. Going
forward monitoring and alerting mechanisms will be rolled out to cover
all access methods.

As many of our peer publishers are also doing, we are taking the steps
that we need to do in order to protect our content, and your
responsibilities to fulfill the terms of our agreements which prohibit
systematic downloading.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

Christopher M. McKenzie
Vice President, Global Intellectual Property Management Global Legal