STANDARD LICENSE AGREEMENT*

This License Agreement (this "Agreement") is made effective as of ____________,
between The University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, P.O. Box 400318, Charlottesville,
VA 22904, USA ("Licensor") and _________________________________________________________________________________________________ ("Licensee").
In consideration of the mutual promises contained herein and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties
agree as follows:
I. CONTENT OF LICENSED MATERIALS; GRANT OF LICENSE
The materials that are the subject of this Agreement shall consist of the entire contents ofthe publications:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(hereinafter referred to as the "Licensed Materials").
Licensee and its Authorized Users acknowledge that the copyright and title to the
Licensed Materials and any trademarks or service marks relating thereto remain with
Licensor. Neither Licensee nor its Authorized Users shall have right, title or interest in
the Licensed Materials except as expressly set forth in this Agreement.
Licensor hereby grants to Licensee non-exclusive use of the Licensed Materials and toprovide the Licensed Materials to Authorized Users in accordance with this Agreement.
II. DELIVERY/ACCESS OF LICENSED MATERIALS TO LICENSEE
Licensor will provide the Licensed Materials to the Licensee in the following manner:
Network Access. The Licensed Materials will be stored at one or more Licensor
locations in digital form accessible by telecommunications links between such locations
and authorized locations of Licensee.

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III. FEES
Licensee shall make payment to Licensor for use of the Licensed Materials as follows:
Licensee agrees to pay Licensor the one-time fee of $_____. This fee is due and payable
by Licensee sixty (60) days after the date of invoice from Licensor.
Licensee agrees to pay Licensor an annual maintenance fee due one calendar year fromthe date of the original purchase of the Licensed Materials. Licensor will notify Licenseeof this fee sixty days before payment is due. By accepting this payment, Licensor
guarantees delivery of all updates in content and functionality at no further charge to
Licensee. Licensor reserves the right to increase this fee.

IV. AUTHORIZED USE OF LICENSED MATERIALS
Authorized Users. "Authorized Users" are:
Persons Affiliated with the Licensee. Full and part time employees (including faculty,
staff, and independent contractors) and students of Licensee and the institution of which
it is a part, regardless of the physical location of such persons.
Walk-ins. Patrons not affiliated with Licensee who are physically present at Licensee'ssite(s) (“walk-ins”). “Site” is defined to include every campus location for the Licensee,
whether physical or virtual.
Access by and Authentication of Authorized Users. Licensee and its Authorized Users
shall be granted access to the Licensed Materials pursuant to the following:
IP Addresses. Authorized Users shall be identified and authenticated by the use ofInternet Protocol (“IP”) addresses provided by Licensee to Licensor. The use of proxy
servers is permitted as long as any proxy server IP addresses provided limit remote or
off-campus access to Authorized Users.
Authorized Uses. Licensee and Authorized Users may make all use of the Licensed
Materials as is consistent with the Fair Use Provisions of United States and international
copyright laws. In addition, the Licensed Materials may be used for purposes of research,education or other non-commercial use as follows:
Display. Licensee and Authorized Users shall have the right to electronically display the
Licensed Materials.
Digitally Copy. Licensee and Authorized Users may download and digitally copy up to
10% of the complete Licensed Materials.
Print Copy. Licensee and Authorized Users may print a reasonable portion of the
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Recover Copying Costs. Licensee may charge a reasonable fee to cover costs of copying
or printing portions of Licensed Materials for Authorized Users.
Archival/Backup Copy. Upon request of Licensee, Licensee may receive from Licensor
and/or create one (1) copy of the entire set of source files of the Licensed Materials to be
maintained as a backup or archival copy during the term of this Agreement, or as required
to exercise Licensee’s rights under section X, ‘Perpetual License’, of this Agreement.
Caching. Licensee and Authorized Users may make local digital copies of the Licensed
materials in order to ensure efficient use by Authorized Users by appropriate browser orother software.
Collections of Information. Licensee and Authorized Users shall be permitted to
extract or use information contained in the Licensed Materials for educational, scientific,
or research purposes, including extraction and manipulation of information for the
purpose of illustration, explanation, example, comment, criticism, teaching, research, or
analysis.
Course Packs. Licensee and Authorized Users may use a reasonable portion of theLicensed Materials in the preparation of Course Packs or other educational materials.
Course Reserves (Print and Electronic). Licensee and Authorized Users may use areasonable portion of the Licensed Materials for use in connection with specific courses
of instruction offered by the Licensee.
Electronic Links. The Licensee is committed to the use of the emerging OpenURL
standard to allow linking to related materials in other locations. If Licensor does not use
the OpenURL standard, Licensor staff will provide information to Licensee upon request
to assist the Licensee in creating links directly from Licensee’s library catalogs andlicensed resources to the content at the journal, issue and article levels.
Scholarly Sharing. Authorized Users may transmit to a third party in hard copy orelectronically, minimal, insubstantial amounts of the Licensed Materials for personal use
or scholarly, educational, or scientific research or professional use but in no case forresale or commercial purposes.
Interlibrary Loan. Licensee may fulfill occasional requests from other institutions, apractice commonly called Interlibrary Loan. Licensee agrees to fulfill such requests incompliance with Section 108 of the United States Copyright Law (17 USC §108,“Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and archives”) and the
Guidelines for the Proviso of Subsection 108(2g)(2) prepared by the National
Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works.

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Amount of Authorized Use.
Unlimited Access. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Licensee and its Authorized
Users shall have unlimited access to the Licensed Materials.

V. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF LICENSED MATERIALSUnauthorized Use. Licensee shall not knowingly permit anyone other than Authorized
Users to use the Licensed Materials.
Modification of Licensed Materials. Licensee shall not modify, manipulate, or create aderivative work of the Licensed Materials without the prior written permission ofLicensor.
Removal of Copyright Notice. Licensee may not remove, obscure or modify any
copyright or other notices included in the Licensed Materials.
Commercial Purposes. Licensee may not use the Licensed Materials for commercial
purposes, including but not limited to the sale of the Licensed Materials, fee-for-service
use of the Licensed Materials, or bulk reproduction or distribution of the Licensed
Materials in any form; nor may Licensee impose special charges on Authorized Users foruse of the Licensed Materials beyond reasonable printing or administrative costs.
VI. MUTUAL PERFORMANCE OBLIGATIONS
User Surveys. Licensee and Licensor shall cooperate on the preparation and provision ofuser surveys to solicit feedback on the Licensed Materials from Authorized Users.
Confidentiality of User Data. Except as may otherwise be required by law, Licensor andLicensee agree to maintain the confidentiality of any data relating to the usage of theLicensed Materials by Licensee and its Authorized Users. Such data may be used solely
for purposes directly related to the Licensed Materials and may only be provided to third
parties in aggregate form. Raw usage data, including but not limited to information
relating to the identity of specific users and/or uses, shall not be provided to any third
party.
Implementation of Developing Security Protocols. Licensee and Licensor shall cooperate
in the implementation of security and control protocols and procedures as they aredeveloped during the term of this Agreement.

VII. LICENSOR PERFORMANCE OBLIGATIONS
Availability of Licensed Materials. Upon the Effective Date of this Agreement, Licensor
shall make the Licensed Materials available to Licensee and Authorized Users.
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documentation.
Support. Licensor will offer reasonable levels of continuing support to assist Licensee
and Authorized Users in use of the Licensed Materials. Licensee agrees to attempt tooffer assistance in answering general questions from Authorized Users before seeking
support from Licensor. In the event that such support cannot address any problem
encountered by an Authorized User, Licensor will make its personnel available by email,phone or fax during regular business hours, Monday through Friday for assistance.
Quality of Service. Licensor shall use reasonable efforts to ensure that the Licensor's
server or servers have sufficient capacity and rate of connectivity to provide the Licensee
and its Authorized Users with a quality of service comparable to current standards in theon-line information provision industry in the Licensee's locale.
Licensor shall use reasonable efforts to provide continuous service seven (7) days a weekwith an average of 98% up-time per month. The 2% down-time includes periodic
unavailability due to maintenance of the server(s), the installation or testing of software,
the loading of additional Licensed Materials as they become available, and downtime
related to the failure of equipment or services outside the control of Licensor, including
but not limited to public or private telecommunications services or internet nodes or
facilities. Scheduled down-time will be performed at a time to minimize inconvenienceto Licensee and its Authorized Users.
If the Licensed Materials fail to operate in conformance with the terms of this Agreement,
Licensee shall immediately notify Licensor, and Licensor shall promptly use reasonable
efforts to restore access to the Licensed Materials as soon as possible. In the event that
Licensor fails to repair the nonconformity in a reasonable time, Licensor shall reimburse
Licensee in an amount that the nonconformity is proportional to the annual maintenanceFees owed by Licensee under this Agreement.
Notification of Modifications of Licensed Materials. Licensee understands that fromtime to time the Licensed Materials may be added to, modified, or deleted from by
Licensor and/or that portions of the Licensed Materials may migrate to other formats.
Licensor shall give a ninety (90) day notice of any such changes to Licensee. Failure by
Licensor to provide such notice shall be grounds for immediate termination of theAgreement by Licensee.
Completeness of Content. Where applicable, Licensor shall use reasonable efforts toensure that the online content is at least equivalent to print versions of the Licensed
Materials, represents complete, faithful and timely replications of the print versions ofsuch Materials, and will cooperate with Licensee to identify and correct errors oromissions.

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VIII. LICENSEE PERFORMANCE OBLIGATIONSProvision of Notice of License Terms to Authorized Users. Licensee shall makereasonable efforts to provide Authorized Users with appropriate notice of the terms andconditions under which access to the Licensed Materials is granted under this Agreement,
and shall notify Authorized Users of any limitations on access or use of the Licensed
Materials as set forth in this Agreement.
Provision of Notice of Intellectual Property Right to Authorized Users. Licensee shallprovide Authorized Users with notice of any applicable Intellectual Property or otherrights applicable to the Licensed Materials. Licensee shall make reasonable efforts toprevent the infringement of any Intellectual Property or other rights of the Licensor in the
Licensed Materials. Licensee shall promptly notify Licensor of any infringement thatcomes to Licensee's attention, and take appropriate steps to avoid its recurrence.
Protection from Unauthorized Use. Licensee shall use reasonable efforts to protect the
Licensed Materials from any use that is not permitted under this Agreement. In the eventof any unauthorized use of the Licensed Materials by an Authorized User, (a) Licensor
may terminate such Authorized User's access to the Licensed Materials, (b) Licensor may
terminate the access of the Internet Protocol ("IP") address(es) from which such
unauthorized use occurred, and/or (c) Licensee shall terminate such Authorized User's
access to the Licensed Materials upon Licensor's request. Licensor shall take none of thesteps described in this paragraph without first providing a sixty (60) day notice toLicensee and cooperation with the Licensee to avoid recurrence of any unauthorized use.
Maintaining Confidentiality of Access Passwords. Where access to the Licensed
Materials is to be controlled by use of passwords, Licensee shall issue log-on
identification numbers and passwords to each Authorized User and use reasonable efforts
to ensure that Authorized Users do not divulge their numbers and passwords to any third
party.

IX. EARLY TERMINATIONIn the event that either party believes that the other materially has breached any
obligations under this Agreement, or if Licensor believes that Licensee has exceeded thescope of the License, such party shall so notify the breaching party in writing. The
breaching party shall have sixty (60) days from the receipt of notice to cure the alleged
breach and to notify the non-breaching party in writing that cure has been effected. If thebreach is not cured within the sixty (60) day period, the non-breaching party shall havethe right to terminate the Agreement without further notice.
Upon Termination of this Agreement for cause online access to the Licensed Materials by
Licensee and Authorized Users shall be terminated. Authorized source files of Licensed
Materials may be retained by Licensee or Authorized Users and used subject to the termsof this Agreement.
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X. PERPETUAL LICENSE
Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Licensor hereby grants to Licensee anonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to use any Licensed Materials accessible
under this Agreement. Should Licensor be unable for any reason to continue hosting the
Licensed Materials, Licensor agrees to provide Licensee with CD-ROM or otherappropriate electronic format containing complete source files of Licensed Materials.
Licensee will in such a case use the Licensed Materials in accordance with the provisionsof this Agreement.
XI. WARRANTIES
Subject to the Limitations set forth elsewhere in this Agreement:
Licensor warrants that it has the right to license the rights granted under this Agreement
to use Licensed Materials, that it has obtained any and all necessary permissions fromthird parties to license the Licensed Materials, and that use of the Licensed Materials by
Authorized Users in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall not infringe thecopyright of any third party.
Licensor warrants that the physical medium, if any, on which the Licensed Materials isprovided to Licensee will be free from defects for a period of ninety (90) days fromdelivery.
XII. LIMITATIONS ON WARRANTIES
Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement:
Neither party shall be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, punitive or consequential
damages, including but not limited to loss of data, business interruption, or loss of profits,
arising out of the use of or the inability to use the Licensed Materials.
Licensor makes no representation or warranty, and expressly disclaims any liability withrespect to the content of any Licensed Materials, including but not limited to errors oromissions contained therein, libel, infringement of rights of publicity, privacy, trademark
rights, moral rights, or the disclosure of confidential information.
Except for the express warranties stated herein, the Licensed Materials are provided on an"as is" basis, and Licensor disclaims any and all other warranties, conditions, orrepresentations (express, implied, oral or written), relating to the Licensed Materials or
any part thereof, including, without limitation, any and all implied warranties of quality,
performance, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Licensor makes nowarranties respecting any harm that may be caused by the transmission of a computervirus, worm, time bomb, logic bomb or other such computer program. Licensor further
expressly disclaims any warranty or representation to Authorized Users, or to any third
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XIII. ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER
Neither party may assign, directly or indirectly, all or part of its rights or obligations
under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other party, which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
XIV. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
In the event any dispute or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement, theparties agree to exercise their best efforts to resolve the dispute as soon as possible. The
parties shall, without delay, continue to perform their respective obligations under thisAgreement which are not affected by the dispute.
Mediation. In the event that the parties can not by exercise of their best efforts resolve
the dispute, they shall submit the dispute to Mediation. The parties shall, without delay,
continue to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement which are notaffected by the dispute. The invoking party shall give to the other party written notice ofits decision to do so, including a description of the issues subject to the dispute and a
proposed resolution thereof. Designated representatives of both parties shall attempt toresolve the dispute within five (5) working days after such notice. If those designatedrepresentatives cannot resolve the dispute, the parties shall meet at a mutually agreeable
location and describe the dispute and their respective proposals for resolution to
responsible executives of the disputing parties, who shall act in good faith to resolve thedispute.
XV. FORCE MAJEURE
Neither party shall be liable in damages or have the right to terminate this Agreement forany delay or default in performing hereunder if such delay or default is caused byconditions beyond its control including, but not limited to Acts of God, Government
restrictions (including the denial or cancellation of any export or other necessary license),
wars, insurrections, strikes or other work stoppages, and/or any other cause beyond thereasonable control of the party whose performance is affected.
XVI. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties and supersedes all priorcommunications, understandings and agreements relating to the subject matter hereof,
whether oral or written.
XVII. AMENDMENT
No modification or claimed waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be valid
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except by written amendment signed by authorized representatives of Licensor andLicensee.
XVIII. SEVERABILITY
If any provision or provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal,
unenforceable or in conflict with the law of any jurisdiction, the validity, legality andenforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
XIX. WAIVER OF CONTRACTUAL RIGHT
Waiver of any provision herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any other provision
herein, nor shall waiver of any breach of this Agreement be construed as a continuing
waiver of other breaches of the same or other provisions of this Agreement.
XX. NOTICESAll notices given pursuant to this Agreement shall be in writing and may be handdelivered, or shall be deemed received within five (5) business days after mailing if sentby registered or certified mail, return receipt requested. If any notice is sent by facsimile,
confirmation copies must be sent by U.S. Mail or hand delivery to the specified address.
Either party may from time to time change its Notice Address by written notice to theother party.
If to Licensor:
University of Virginia Press
Rotunda, P.O. Box 400318
Charlottesville, VA 22904
USA
If to Licensee:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement by their respective,
duly authorized representatives as of the date first above written.

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LICENSOR:
BY: ______________________________________
DATE:_________________On behalf of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
Print Name: Mark Saunders
Title: Interim Director
Address: University of Virginia Press, P.O. Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Telephone No.: 434-924-6064
E-mail: msaunders@virginia.edu
LICENSEE:
BY: _______________________________________
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Licensee
Print Name:
Title:
Address:
Telephone No.:
E-mail:

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