The library licenses electronic resources for use by students, faculty and staff including indexes, databases, online journals, ebooks, datasets, and specialized software tools. Access to these resources is governed by contractual agreements with resource providers. These agreements limit access to authorized users. Use of these resources is intended for personal use for the purposes of research, education and private study, and not for commercial purposes.
Permitted Uses
Violations of our license agreements can result in the loss of access to an electronic resource for the entire Trent community. If you are unsure about the permitted uses for a particular resource, please contact library@trentu.ca for assistance.
Generally Allowed
Except when prohibited by the terms of a specific license agreement, the following uses are generally permitted:
- Access by walk-in users who are not affiliated with Trent University, but who are physically present in the Library.
- Printing or downloading a single copy of an article for personal use, in accordance with Canadian Copyright law.
- Using licensed material for research, education, or private study.
- Sharing a resource with a fellow member of the Trent community.
- Sharing a persistent link to licensed material.
- Transmitting short excerpts within Blackboard or a secure network, for educational use by users affiliated with Trent University.
- Reusing short excerpts with appropriate citation in scholarly work including course assignments.
Generally Not Allowed
- Off campus or remote access by users not affiliated with Trent University.
- Substantial printing or systematic downloading of content (e.g. entire journal issues, entire ebooks).
- Commercial use, selling or distribution of licensed material.
- Sharing material with others not affiliated with Trent University by any means.
- Posting or scanning articles or book chapters to personal or publicly available websites.
- Text and data mining, use of bots or intelligent agents to crawl vendor platforms.
- Uploading licensed material to third party platforms, including generative AI tools like ChatGPT.
- Sharing your MyTrent network login credentials with other person or organization.
See also the Library Resource Use Policy