Library Policies Related to the Collection
Censorship and Intelluctual Freedom: The A. R. Dykes Library supports the A.L.A. Bill of Rights, Intellectual Freedom Statement and its statement on Challenged Materials. Librarians have a responsibility to ensure that the selection and availability of information materials is governed solely by professional considerations. In so doing, they should neither promote nor suppress opinions and beliefs expressed in the materials with which they deal. No library materials will be censored, restricted, removed, or have access denied to them because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval or pressure.
Copyright: The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) requires its faculty, staff, and students to comply with the United States Copyright Act. Faculty, students and staff shall download, possess, or store only lawfully acquired copyrighted materials and use, adapt, distribute, or perform them only in ways consistent with the Copyright act, associated case law, the Fair Use principle, and the intellectual property rights of others. For more details, visit http://www.kumc.edu/Pulse/copyright.html.
Electronic Licensing: The library adheres to the following definitions and expectations regarding licensing:
- Library's authorized users include the students, faculty and staff of the University of Kansas Medical Center at both the Kansas City and the Wichita campus and all on-site visitors to the library.
- Currently, the preferred method for authenticating authorized users is via IP address ranges. If this method is not feasible, individual username and password access is acceptable as long as publishers agree to that user name/password information being posted on the Intranet IP access controlled web page.
- Pursuant to sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law of 1976, which outlines guidelines for fair use and reproduction by libraries and archives, the Library may supply through interlibrary loan a single copy of an individual document derived from the Licensed Materials via mail, fax or by secure electronic transmission.
- The purchase of electronic information should include provisions for perpetual access to that information. Agreements should clearly state archival responsibility.
- The purchase of electronic information should permit the Library to incorporate any part of the Licensed Materials in printed Course Packs and Electronic Reserve collections without prior written permission as long as:
- Access is restricted to Authorized Users, and
- Any copies created for the purpose of Course Packs or electronic format are removed and deleted at the end of the term or semester in which the relevant course ends.
- The library investigates a variety of licensing arrangements with other Kansas libraries and consortia.
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