Standard Terms and Conditions of Licence andUse for the V&R eLibrary of the Publishers
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht and V&R unipress
The V&R eLibrary enables online access to be made to digital versions of the publishers' own books and journals.
The current V&R eLibrary and the eBooks and eJournals currently offered in it are retrievable under the URL
www.vr-elibrary.de.
The following Terms and Conditions of Licence and Use regulate the rights and obligations of the customers andusers (here: libraries, institutional customers and business customers, hereinafter called "Licensees") and the
publishers granting the Licences (hereinafter "Licensors").
V&R and V&R unipress (hereinafter also "Licensors") grant the customer or user the non- exclusive and nontransferable right to use the contents of the V&R eLibrary in accordance with the following provisions.
This agreement provides Licensees with the rights to use the respective contents during the allotted time in themanner agreed upon at the costs specified. These rights of use of the Licensee are valid for a single and multiple
location.
1. Object and exercise of the right of use
1.1 The Licensee receives the non-exclusive, non-transferable and non- sub-licensable right to use eBooks andeJournals of the V&R eLibrary for the contractually agreed period and to access the respectively agreed contents
on www.vr-elibrary.de. Access and use take place via an independent network or via a virtual Internet network.
1.2 The Licensee undertakes only to permit authorised users access and use, and to ensure use in accordance withthe contractual terms through appropriate safeguards. Authorised users within the meaning of these StandardTerms and Conditions of Licence are:- employees of the Licensee- teaching staff and research assistants and lecturers of the Licensee- enrolled students of an institution of the Licensee- library users within the premises of the library (walk-in users)- registered remote-access users
2. Copyright; Access arrangements
2.1 The V&R eLibrary www.vr-elibrary.de and its contents, layouts and operation concept are protected bycopyright. The Licensee shall take all appropriate security measures in order to prevent misuse, in particular toprevent mass downloads and the unlawful dissemination of the contents.
2.2 For the purpose of access to the V&R eLibrary, an authentication of the IP address or IP address range of theLicensee will be carried out. The Licensee can also log in using a username and password, in addition to having
access through a secure remote-access authentication process such as Shibboleth or a VPN login provided byone´s institution.
2.3 Authorised users of the licensee in the fields of education, science and teaching can use the licensed content
within the legal framework of §§ 60 ff of the UrhG.

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2.4. Commercial exploitation of the Licensed Material, such as resale, sublicensing or inclusion of the Licensed
Content in document delivery services, is prohibited. What remains possible, however, is use within the meaningof section 60 e) UrhG.
2.5 Commercial exploitation of the object of the Licence, such as the re-sale, sub-licensing or inclusion of thelicensed contents in document delivery services, is not permitted. On the other hand, non-commercial interlibrary loans are admissible between libraries in respect of individual magazine articles or chapters of books in so
far as these are created and sent exclusively in paper form. For this purpose, the use of special software is also
admissible (such as e.g. Ariel Interlibrary Loan Software from Infotrieve).
2.6 The Licensee and the Licensee´s entitled users shall not publish or distribute any contents covered by thislicense, whether in part or whole, on the Internet.
2.7 Programmes which are designed to retrieve data on a continuous and automated basis or to carry out
downloads systematically (crawlers, robots, spiders and suchlike) may not be used by the Licensee or theauthorised users.
2.8 The contents of the object of the Licence will be provided exclusively via the V&R eLibrary www.vrelibrary.de. The temporary intermediate storage (caching) of the object of the Licence or of parts of the object ofthe Licence is permitted in so far as technically necessary. The archiving of the object of the Licence or of partsof the object of the Licence by the Licensee and the making of the same available to authorised users is onlypermitted with the prior written consent of the Licensor. In respect of the archiving of such contents, the terms
and conditions for access to www.vr-elibrary.de apply correspondingly.
2.9 As part of the license to the contents, the Licensee shall receive a corresponding list containing information
about any use that may potentially be restricted in time, the acceptable number of simultaneously logins and any
fees that may accrue in the scope of the licensing model/publication offer.
2.10 V&R as well as V&R unipress shall provide the Licensee with free access to contents not contained in thisagreement (e.g., past issues of the journals) above and beyond the agreed-upon amount. This is done as an act of
goodwill and may be revoked by the Licensor at any time. These additional rights of use automatically terminate
at the end of the licensing period.
2.11 V&R as well as V&R unipress reserve the right at any time to withdraw parts of the licensed Property, if itturns out later that they have not or no longer appropriate rights or that third party rights or laws are violated.
In such cases the licensee shall be notified by the licensor in due time. If the retracted content represent morethan just a marginal share (e.g. individual illustrations) of the total product, the Licensee will be refunded pro
rata share costs, unless the useful life of the retracted content was less than twelve months.
2.12 The Licensee may neither remove, alter nor suppress any references to copyrights, any logos, brand names,
identification features, references to liability or exclusions of liability, rights reserved or names of authors or
editors in the licensed contents and programmes.
2.13 The authorised users are to be informed of these Terms and Conditions of Licence by the Licensee andplaced under an obligation to observe copyrights and the Terms and Conditions of Licence. Upon request, theLicensee shall produce proof of compliance with this duty.

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3. Conclusion of the contract; Right of cancellation
3.1 A contract is formed when the order of the Licensee has been confirmed by V&R and V&R unipress; the online
offers on www.vr-elibrary.de do not of themselves constitute any binding offer of contract. The activation of theIP of the Licensee and the corresponding notification by e-mail or the sending of the invoice also representconfirmation.
3.2 The Licensor reserves the right to change or adapt these terms of use as necessary. The Licensee shall be
notified of any such changes by the publisher or one of the publisher´s sales partners via e-mail or in writing. In
cases involving major changes to the rights of use, the Licensee shall have the right to terminate for cause inwriting the existing agreement within two weeks´ time after receiving notification concerning the changes tothe terms of use. Such termination for cause shall be become effective at the time at which the announced
changes to the terms of use are implemented.

4. Technical facilities; Online availability; Security
4.1 V&R and V&R unipress provide servers and lines in adequate capacity and bandwidth, equivalent to the offersof comparable providers. The interconnection point is the connection of the servers of the Licensor to theInternet. Any liability for transmission congestion in the Internet (e.g. in the case of problems with transatlanticcables) is excluded.
4.2 Occasional maintenance works, including in individual cases server shutdowns or restarts, which may benecessary for the smooth functioning of the eLibrary may in rare cases lead to temporary limitations in service
which shall not constitute grounds for complaint.
4.3 The Licensor shall ensure adequate security in respect of its offers, in particular against hacker attacks andviruses. The Licensee shall likewise be obliged to ensure adequate security; in particular, the Licensee must takeall appropriate measures in order to preclude any unauthorised access or the unauthorised dissemination of thecontents governed by the contract.
4.4 The Licensee undertakes to provide full and correct particulars when placing an order and when registering(e.g. number of the possible authorised users, safeguards, IP range). The Licensee shall treat the access data
confidentially and inform the Licensor immediately in the event of any loss of data, of any case where the rights
granted have been exceeded or in the event of any misuse. The Licensor shall not be liable for any damage
suffered by the Licensee through the misuse of its access data.
4.5 For the avoidance of misuse, the Licensor shall be entitled to monitor the access to the object of the Licenceand the use of the V&R eLibrary and, in the case of proven misuse, to block the access. The Licensor shall notify
the Licensee without delay and set a reasonable period for the elimination of the misuse.
4.6 The licensor shall provide for access to user statistics in standardized formats (e.g., COUNTER).
4.7 The Licensee shall indemnify the Licensor from all damage arising from any use in contravention of thecontractual provisions.

35. Price adjustments, Warranty; Liability
5.1 The Licensee will be informed in writing or by e-mail of any price adjustment. In the case of price increases,
the Licensee may terminate the Licence Agreement within two weeks following receipt of the corresponding
notification. For this purpose, the written form (letter or e-mail) is necessary.
5.2 A right of termination on the part of the Licensee on account of malfunctions or limitations in service shall
only arise where the disruption is considerable and is also not eliminated within a reasonable period. TheLicensee shall likewise have no claim to the elimination of insignificant flaws.
5.3 The Licensor shall only be liable to pay damages in the case of deliberate intent or gross negligence. In allother respects, the statutory provisions apply.
6. Term and termination of the contract; Access following the end of the contract
6.1 The Licence Agreement runs for the contractually agreed period. In so far as applicable for licensed contents(e.g. in the case of journals), this period will be extended in each case by a further 12 months unless terminatedwith notice of 8 weeks, to expire at the end of the contractual term.
Where access unrestricted in terms of time has been agreed in relation to certain contents (e.g. eBooks), only
the contents provided by the Licensor as a gesture of goodwill shall be affected by notice of termination or by
non-renewal of a contract (see 2.10).
6.2 Following the end of the contract, the Licensee shall, upon request, be granted the right to receive further
access to those contents governed by the contract which appeared during the term of the contract and for which
it also made payment.
6.3 The right of the parties to the contract to terminate the same for cogent reasons remains unaffected. In
particular, the Licensor reserves the right of extraordinary termination in the case of serious or persistentbreaches in the area of access to or the passing on of data.
6.4 Any notice of termination must be given in written form. It is to be sent to:
Postal address:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG),
Robert-Bosch-Breite 637079 Göttingen
Fax:+49 551/5084-454
6.5 The applicable law is the law of the Federal Republic of Germany subject to the express exclusion of the UN
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). The court venue is Göttingen.

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7. Miscellaneous provisions, Settlement of Disputes
7.1 In order to be able to perform the contractual agreement, it is necessary for the Licensor to carry out
electronic processing of the data of the Licensee. The use of the data by the Licensee and/or by the authorised
users will be statistically recorded and will also be respectively available to the Licensee. Data protection
provisions will be observed in the full scope.
7.2 According to the current state of technology, so-called cookies are necessary for the use of www.vrelibrary.de. Should the browser or network settings of the Licensee or of the authorised users preclude cookies, it
is possible that registration and/or use is made more complicated or is not possible at all. This does notconstitute a ground for complaint.
7.3 The V&R eLibrary www.vr-elibrary.de contains links to information offers of third parties. The Licensor is not
responsible for the offers of third parties and may not be made liable for their contents or technical features.
7.4 Should individual provisions of these Terms and Conditions be void or ineffective, either in whole or in part,or contain any gaps, the rest of the provisions shall retain their validity. In this case, such provision as mostclosely corresponds to the original agreement shall be deemed to be agreed.
7.5 In accordance with Para. 36, Section 1, No. 1 of the German Law Regulating the Settlement of Consumer
Disputes, we expressly point out that we do not participate in dispute settlement procedures that take place
before a consumer arbitration board. Any disputes arising from the contractual relationship with the consumer
shall be resolved exclusively to the courts respectively responsible for such cases.

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Date/Place

Date/Place______________________________
Licensor:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG)
37070 Göttingen________________________________
Licensee:(Stamp of Institution, Signature)________________________________________________________________________________5