Policy

CHEST AGREEMENT FOR USE OF COPYRIGHT SOFTWARE OR DATASETS (CHEST)

What are CHEST agreements?

Chest Agreements are the result of a series of negotiations between Eduserv, the academic community and suppliers and resellers of software and data products.

Eduserv responds to requests from the higher and further education community for access to software and data resources for their institutions. They then negotiate with data publishers and software suppliers to agree preferential terms and conditions for an agreement (this is the Chest Agreement). CHEST stands for Combined Higher Education Software Team. Please visit About CHEST agreements.

Universities are required to sign a licence agreement stating they will allow staff and students to use a database for educational purposes only and not for commercial gain.

Your signature on your employment contract form also serves as an agreement to the conditions listed on the CHEST Copyright Acknowledgment below and will allow you access to a range of databases. Further details are available at: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/resources/general/databases.

COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

You agree that your usage of any Software, Computer Readable Dataset or Courseware or other similar material, hereafter referred to as “the Product”, issued or otherwise made available to you by the Institution to which you are student or member of staff is subject to the following conditions:

  1. You will ensure that all the requirements of the agreements, contracts and licences under which the Product is held by the Institution will be maintained. (Copies of the relevant agreements, contracts and licences may be seen by application to the School or Department which made Product available.)
  2. You will adhere to the regulations governing the use of any service involved in the provision of access to the product whether these services are controlled by your own institution or by some other organisation.
  3. You will not remove or alter the Copyright Statement on any copies of the Product that you use.
  4. You will ensure the Security and Confidentiality of any copy released to you, and will not make any further copies from it or knowingly permit others to do so, unless permitted to do so under the relevant licence.
  5. You will use the Product only for purposes defined, and only on computer systems covered, by the agreement, contract or licence.
  6. You will only incorporate the Product, or part thereof, in any work, program or article you produce, where this is permitted by the licence or by ‘Fair Dealing’.
  7. You will only incorporate some part or version of the Product in any work you produce with the express permission of the Licensor or unless this is permitted under the Agreement.
  8. You will not reverse engineer or decompile the software products or attempt to do so unless this is explicitly permitted within the terms of the Agreement for the use of the Product.
  9. You will return or destroy all copies of the Product at the end of the course/year/period of employment or when requested to do so.

Please note that Institution reserves its right to take legal action against individuals who cause it to be involved in legal proceedings as a result of violation of its licensing agreements.

Please note that all of the licences to the Library’s electronic resources have limitations, and not just the CHEST resources. A summary of these is set out below.

All of the University’s registered staff and students are deemed “authorised users”. This means that they are permitted to make use of the electronic resources for EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PURPOSES by logging into the UWE network. Any member of the University using these resources for commercial purposes is contravening the licences and puts the University at risk of legal action.

Most licences allow access to the electronic resources from outside the institution, as long as the user is required to authenticate using an ID and password. Some resources, however, might be restricted to a limited percentage of the total student population accessing from overseas.

The licences allow users to display, download, print and save reasonable amounts of information for their own PRIVATE RESEARCH AND NONCOMMERCIAL USE. In some cases, material downloaded or printed may be incorporated into study packs or used to satisfy inter library loan requests, but these are the exception rather than the norm.

Wherever information from any of the electronic resources is referred to, used, or (where permitted) re-used an acknowledgement of the source is also required.

None of the information in the electronic resources to which the library subscribes may be modified and redistributed unless expressly permitted.

For more detailed information relating to the use of individual electronic resources see the library’s web site at:

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/info/copyright/licences.htm

With regard to audio visual material recorded for use by students and staff it must be understood that this is also for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.