Licensing Agreements, Intellectual Property and Copyright

Users of online information are subject to the same copyright laws that affect print materials. There are also restrictions on the use of data due to licensing. Please read licensing restrictions for each resource. Some of common restrictions are:

• You may print or download full or partial results for personal or internal business use or research use only.
• You cannot share access with, perform searches for, send data by e-mail or provide results to non-JHMI users.
• You may not use the search results to make copies, sell, distribute, publish or broadcast.
• You may not download more than a small number of records or chapters or articles.
• You may not make electronic copies of records and may not archive records.
• You may not remove or modify any copyright or proprietary notices, author attribution or disclaimers contained in the material or on any screen display.

If you have any questions, please contact the Welch Library at 410-955-4938.

More information about copyright and "Fair Use" can be found by going to Copyright Law: Using Information Legally (available from the Sheridon Libraries of Johns Hopkins University).

General information on copyright law:

Notice: Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies and other reproductions of copyrighted materials.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.