[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