Doctoral student densely download 2578 documents, college IP is permanently banned by databasers ...

On July 6, a "Notice" of the Library of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences attracted attention. It is understood that the school's readers used the "Westlaw Classic Law Online" database in violation of regulations, which caused the school IP to be permanently banned by the database dealer.

After investigation, the school library confirmed that Qiu Mou, a graduate student in 2018: Qiu Qiu downloaded 842 documents within 137 minutes on June 16, 2022, and 1736 documents were downloaded within 137 minutes on June 17. The school library said, "This behavior seriously affects the normal study and scientific research order of teachers and students of our school, and it also harms the reputation of our school."

According to the school rules and regulations, the library dealt with the violations of Qiu Qiu: ① ordered the student to submit a written statement and review to the library, and ensure that similar violations will not occur in the future;

On July 4, similar incidents also occurred in the library of the University of Defense.

Why is the over downloading cause the ban?

As early as November 2019, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences appeared. Due to the excessive download of "China Zhiwang" electronic resources within the IP scope of the Wangjing Campus, the IP address of the Wangjing Campus was banned. Net "resource.

Multi -school libraries have the regulations that "can not be continuously, systematic, concentrated, and in batches.

Some college archives administrators pointed out that dense and over downloading, especially with the help of data crawling tools, it is easy to violate the intellectual property protection agreement signed by the school and the database dealer. Once the behavior is judged as abuse, it can seriously cause the school's IP to ban.

How to define "abuse"?

The "Announcement on Protecting Electronic Resources Intellectual Property" released by Tsinghua University Library in 2021 (hereinafter referred to as the "Announcement") has such an explanation:

Since the definition of "abuse" of each database is not consistent, the library cannot formulate unified standards. General databasers believe that if the download of the normal reading speed is deemed to be abused, it usually takes at least a few minutes to read a literature.

The "Announcement" mentioned that the rules of the use of electronic resources are "not only the intellectual property rights to protect electronic resources, maintaining the reputation of the school, but also to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of legal users."

Picture source: Yunnan University Library

Use database illegal regulations

Not only does it affect normal learning and scientific research order

It also damages the reputation of the school

I hope everyone can abide by the rules of the use of electronic resources

Jointly maintain intellectual property rights

Create a good literary environment

Editor | Liang Liu
Nuclear Trial | Zhao Yajia

Source | Youth Hubei Comprehensive Collection from China Youth Daily, China Social Sciences Library, National University of Defense Technology Library, Beijing University of Petroleum University, Yunnan University Library, Xi'an University of Technology Library, East China University of Technology Library, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University Library, Youth Shandong, etc.

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