I’m having a hard time conceptualizing how students doing a class assignment could be overzealous. It disturbs me to think that our license agreements would start to impinge on which faculty pedagogies libraries are able to support. Am I misunderstanding something?
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From: "Ms. Narda Tafuri" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:30:29 +0000
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
Fax: (570) 941-7809