Doctoral students download 2578 documents normally, college IP is permanently banned

The Library of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently revealed that recently, due to the illegal use of the "Westlaw Classic Law Online" database, our readers were reported by the database to the database dealers permanently, which affected the normal use of the database.

Sources said that after a joint investigation of the network center and the library, it was confirmed that Qiu Bo, a graduate student of the 2018 Graduate School of Law School. Database providers provided data showed that Qiu downloaded 842 documents within 137 minutes on June 16, 2022, and 1736 documents in 137 minutes on June 17. This behavior seriously affects the normal learning and scientific order of teachers and students of our school, and also harms the reputation of our school.

According to the "Intellectual Property Rights and Use Management Rules of Electronic Resources" of the University of Social Sciences, Qiu Bo's illegal behavior has been treated as follows: 1. Order the student to submit a written statement and review to the library, and ensure that it will not happen in the future. Similar to violations. Second, criticize the student's scope of the school.

The library of the University of China ’s University of Social Sciences reiterated again: In order to protect the intellectual property rights of electronic resources, maintain the reputation of the University of China University, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the readers of our university Comply with the relevant provisions of the intellectual property rights of electronic resources. You must not use software tools to download electronic resources in batches, or download electronic resources continuously, concentrated, and batches at non -normal reading speed, or download electronic journals. Regarding the access of the "Westlaw Classic Law Online" database, the news said that in the continuous communication between the library and the data dealer, the visit time and the access method were determined, and the notice will be separately after confirmation.

Public information shows that Westlaw Classic Global Legal Database is a comprehensive law, regulations, news and company information platforms developed by the US West Publishing Company under the US West Publishing Company under the Townson Relody Group. Thomson Reuters Westlaw Classic is designed for legal professionals. Its content including the United States, Canada, Australia, the European Union, and Hong Kong region, case law, international treaty, more than 1,000 laws of law, more than 1,000 species of law, textbooks, dictionaries and dictionaries and Encyclopedia, textbooks and practical guidelines, news, companies and business information, covering almost all legal disciplines.

Surging news noticed that in October 2017, Peking University Library also posted that recently, the library received a warning from the Westlaw database dealer, saying that a certain IP address of our school has continuously downloaded the 2050 of the WestLAW database in a very short time in a short time. Documents have constituted an extra number of downloads. After investigation, the over downloader is Huang, a graduate student of the 2015 master of the School of Software and Microelectronics.

The report pointed out that the excess download behavior of the classmate seriously violated the agreement between the school and the database. As a result, other teachers and students of the school could not use Westlaw database normally for a period of time, causing a bad impact. After criticizing and educational by the library and the department where the classmates are located, the student recognizes his mistakes, is willing to bear the corresponding responsibilities, deletes the over -downloaded literature, and wrote a written apology letter to the school, other teachers and students The adverse effects have a deep apology. In order to safeguard the reputation of Peking University, ensure the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of legal users, and ensure the normal use of the database, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Administrative Measures for the use of electronic resources in the campus network of Peking University" (school issuance [2008] No. 4), the classmate Give notified criticism.

At that time, the Peking University Library stated that it was hoped that readers must be considered to be a precepts, strictly abide by the "Administrative Measures for the use of electronic resources of the campus network of Peking University", and use various database resources ordered by the library to prevent such incidents.

Source: Surging News

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