Terms of supply of documents
1. Documents supplied by mail
Documents are supplied under the Terms and Conditions of the British Library Copyright Fee Paid service available at http://www.bl.uk/services/terms/dss.html.
The contents of the document are copyright works, supplied by mail from the British Library. Unless you have the permission of the copyright owner, the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd or another authorised licensing body, you may not copy, store in any electronic medium or otherwise reproduce or resell any of the content, even for internal purposes, except as may be allowed by law.
The document has come from an electronic store or has been scanned from a paper or microform original, under licence from the publisher. The publisher cannot be held responsible for any errors resulting from the scanning process.
2. Documents supplied by secure electronic delivery – Terms of Supply
Documents are supplied under the Terms and Conditions of the British Library Copyright Fee Paid service available at http://www.bl.uk/services/terms/dss.html.
The contents of the document are copyright works, supplied by secure electronic delivery from the British Library. Unless you have the permission of the copyright owner, the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd or another authorised licensing body, you may not copy, store in any electronic medium or otherwise reproduce or resell any of the content, even for internal purposes, except as may be allowed by law.
The document has come from an electronic store or has been scanned from a paper or microform original, under licence from the publisher. The publisher cannot be held responsible for any errors resulting from the scanning process.
The terms of the licence under which the document was copied and transmitted permit it to be printed only once.
Documents supplied by secure electronic delivery are encrypted PDF files and you must use the full version of Adobe® Reader® 6 to view and print them. You can find more information about how to download and activate Adobe Reader 6 at http://www.bl.uk/services/document/sed.html.
Documents must be downloaded from our secure server within 14 days of us sending the notification email. The document can be accessed only once, so do not click on the link in the email until you are ready to download the document.
Depending on the document received, some Copyright Fee Paid documents supplied by secure electronic delivery can be stored locally on a hard drive for up to 3 years from the time and date given on the email notification, others will expire sooner. However, only one printed copy can be made and we suggest that you print the document as soon as it is received. You must not make any further electronic copies. After 3 years, or sooner for some documents, view and print permissions will expire and you will no longer be able to open the document.
Restrictions
The following restrictions apply, unless you have the permission of the copyright owner, the Copyright Licensing Agency or another authorised licensing body.
You may print only one paper copy, from which you may not make any further copies.
You may not make further electronic copies or convert the file into any other format.
You may not cut and paste or otherwise alter the text.
You may forward the notification email to the person who made the original request in order for them to print the single copy, but you may not save or print the document before forwarding it.
Licensed Intermediaries must observe the following additional conditions when forwarding an electronic file:
1. Only the notification email can be forwarded to the end user. The document must not be loaded on to a server for downloading by the end user.
2. The British Library cover sheet must not be detached from the electronic file.
Replacements for defective copies
If you need to ask for the complete document to be resent, because it is defective or is the wrong article, you must destroy the wrong/defective copy and any associated electronic files.
