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Publisher / Broker

Elsevier

Link to the resource

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

Journal list

https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/sd-content/journals/freedomcoll.xls

Subscribing organisations

List of subscribing organisations

Agreement period

01.01.2018-31.12.2020

Description

Elsevier Science Direct Freedom collection is a multidisciplinary journal collection which includes about 1850 active e-journals plus around 150 discontinued e-journals. Access to titles starts from the year 1995. Freedom collection is updated once a year with new, transferred or removed titles.

Authorised users

Authorised users are full-time and part-time students, faculty, staff, researchers and independent contractors, retired faculty staff, retired librarians and retired researchers of the Institutions subscribing to Licensed Products and individuals work stations or otherwise within the library facilities at the Institutions.

Permitted use

Institutions and its Authorised users may
- access, search, view and browse the licensed products
- print, photocopy and download a reasonable amount of articles, abstracts, records or parts of chapters from the Licensed Products ("Excerpts")
- incorporate links to excerpts on the Institutions' intranet and internet web sites
- incorporate links to excerpts and electronically save excerpts in electronic coursepacks and incorporate printed excerpts in printed coursepacks.
Use in coursepacks is allowed in connection to those courses which are offered by the Institutions for academic credit. Used excerpts shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source. Use in connection with non-credit courses needs permission from Elsevier. Coursepacks in nonelectronic, non-print perceptible form (e.g. Braille) may be offered for visually impaired.

Authorised users may
- provide printed or electronic copies of excepts to other authorized users or to third party colleagues for their scholarly or research use
- print and electronically save for personal use a reasonable amount of articles, abstracts, records or parts of chapters from the licensed products (incl. use by teaching staff in electronic presentations during lectures for credited courses)
nshots, including trademarks and logos.

Text and datamining (TDM): Authorized Users may:
- access the text and data mining service online via an API at

and to download and save the full-text articles for TDM purposes for access and use by the Authorised User or the Institution the Authorised User is affiliated with;
-continuously and automatically extract semantic entities from such full-text articles retrieved through the TDM service for the purpose of including but not limited to identifying patterns and trends within natural language through text categorization, statistical pattern recognition, concept or sentiment extraction, and the association of natural language with indexing terms and mount, load and integrate the results with other data (the "TDM Output";)
- distribute the TDM Output externally electronically and/or in print format, which may include a few lines of query-dependent text of individual full text articles which shall be up to a maximum length of 200 characters surrounding and excluding the text entity matched or limited extracts of full text as permitted by Finnish law ("Snippets") or bibliographic metadata. Where Snippets and/or bibliographic metadata are distributed, they should be accompanied by a DOI link or an alternative attribution via other means that refers to the individual full text article. Where images are used the Subscriber should clear the rights for reuse with the relevant copyright owner and/or rights holder.


Institutions will be entitled to promote and provide training on the licensed products to authorized users. Librarians are allowed to electronically save and post for training and promotional purposes on Institutions' intranet or internet web site a reasonable number of scree

Prohibited use

Institutions and its authorised users may not
- abridge, modify, translate or create any derivated work based on the licensed products without Elsevier's permission
- remove, obscure or modify copyright notices, other notices or disclaimers as they appear in the licensed products
- use any robots, spiders, crawlers or other automated downloading programs, algorithms or devices to continuously and automatically search, scrape, extract, deep link, index or disrupt the working of the Subscribed Products
- substancially or systematically reproduce, retain or redistribute the licensed products

Unauthorised use of the licensed products may lead to suspension of access to the licensed products.


Institutions shall use reasonable efforts to:
- ensure that access to and use of the licensed products is limited to authorized users and that all authorised users are notified of and comply with the usage restrictions
- ensure that any passwords or credentials used to access the licensed products are issued only to authorized users and that neither the institutions or authorized users divulge any passwords or credentials to any third party
- and immediately upon becoming aware of any unauthorized use inform Elsevier and take appropriate steps to ensure that such activity ceases and to prevent any recurrence.

Remote access

Remote access allowed through the Institution's secure network.

Training material on web

Elsevier Training Desk

Additional information

Agreement includes a possibility for the authorized users to publish articles open access with a discounted on article processing charge (50%). Further information about the conditions and process: