Dear colleagues,

We recently were contacted and warned by ProQuest Technical Support due to “excessive usage.”  This turned out to be legitimate usage by overzealous students working on a class assignment.   Coincidently, I was just sent a new “overarching” ProQuest license to sign.   Our license indicates that users are permitted to download or print “reasonable” amounts of material.   The new license contains a new section with a list of Restrictions. 

I am wondering if others are also experiencing this type of thing (excessive usage claims) coming from ProQuest and a tightening of license terms regarding usage?

Thank you to anyone who is willing to share their recent experience with this.

Best,

Narda

Narda Tafuri

Associate Professor

Coordinator of Technical Services/Acquisitions Librarian

University of Scranton

Weinberg Memorial Library

800 Linden St.

Scranton, PA  18510

Voice: (570) 941-7811

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