Library e-Resources are protected by copyright and licences.

Accessing and Using Western Sydney University Library e-Resources

Western Sydney University Library e-Resources — including databases and their contents (including images, graphics, indexing and abstracts), audio-only recordings, audio-visual works, artworks, musical works, books, and journal articles — are in most cases protected by copyright and subject to licence agreements between the University and content vendors (“Publishers”) that may place restrictions on how you use them.

By accessing or using Western Sydney University Library e-Resources, you agree to use them in a legal, ethical, and responsible manner and in compliance with:

• The Publisher’s terms and conditions of use, which are available when you access an e-Resource item, normally referred to as “Terms and Conditions”, “Copyright”, “Legal Notice” or “User responsibilities”.
• Western Sydney University's Acceptable Use of Digital Services Policy.
• The University’s Student Code of Conduct or the Staff and Affiliates Code of Conduct.
• The Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), in particular the provisions regarding fair dealing, copying, and communications for personal research or study.

Failure to comply with one or more of these could result in suspension or revocation of your access to the Western Sydney University Library, as well as other disciplinary steps. In addition, you may be subject to direct action by the Publisher or copyright owner.

Permitted Uses

Western Sydney university makes resources available for your personal research or study. You may only use these resources in accordance with the policies and procedures listed above, each Publisher’s terms and conditions of use, and (unless contrary to those terms and conditions) the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

Prohibited Uses

Except as permitted under each Publisher’s terms and conditions of use, you must not:

• You may not share, re-publish, copy or enter into AI technologies any part of a resource accessed from our online collections.
• Copy, share, download or post e-Resource content, including onto mailing lists, bulletin boards, websites, or social media.
• Sell, rent, license, supply, assign or otherwise authorise the use of any e-Resources by any other person or organisation.
• Use, or authorise the use of, the e-Resources for any commercial purpose.
• Record, publicly perform, adapt, translate or broadcast.
• Use spiders, robots or crawlers or any other automated process (or any equivalent manual process) to download or extract e-Resources without express permission from the Publisher.

By using Western Sydney University Library e-Resources, you agree to the University Library’s terms and conditions of access and use.