John Benjamins Publishing Company

Terms of Use – Electronic Books and Journals

By accessing the electronic full text of a John Benjamins journal or book you indicate that you have read and accept the terms and conditions stated in these Terms of Use.
We may amend these Terms of Use at any time. Any revised version will be effective upon its publication on the John Benjamins website, www.benjamins.com.

Definitions

• The "Publisher" is John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam & Philadelphia.
• The "Licensee" is the person, institute, library or company holding the subscription to the journal or purchasing the e-book.
• An "Authorized User" is any member of the staff or faculty, or enrolled student of the Licensee who can get access via a secure server, or any person physically present at a computer on the site of the Licensee. In the case of a private subscription or purchase, the Licensee is the only Authorized User.
• The "Material" is the electronic version of a book or a journal volume published by the Publisher, or any part thereof that is only made available to Licensees.

Terms

• The Material is copyright of the Publisher or under license to the Publisher.
• The full text of the Material is presented in PDF format.
• The Publisher warrants long-term availability of the Material. If the Material should no longer be made available through this platform, the Publisher will offer other options and inform the Licensees about these. Our journals and books are archived with Portico.
• The Publisher accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage consequent upon the use of the Material or the platform.
• For private users, access is on the basis of a personal log-in and password, which may not be made available to others.
• For institutions, libraries and companies, access is on the basis of a single site license; this may be a single campus with multiple buildings. For multi-site licenses, please contact the Publisher.
• Institutions are permitted to provide ILL within the same country as the Licensee, at cost price, and only to non-commercial and non-corporate libraries. For the purpose of ILL, they may use an electronic file of (part of) the Material to send to the requesting institution. The requesting institution may only supply their requesting end user with a printed version and/or — if they are capable of this — to supply the requesting end user with single user, read-only access to the file for their normal term of loan. The requesting institution may not keep the electronic file or a printed version for any further or future purposes.
• The Licensee and the Authorized Users may make all use of the Material as is consistent with international copyright laws and the Fair Use Provisions of the United States. However, the Licensee and the Authorized Users are not permitted to:

• allow the Material to be accessed by anyone other than Authorized Users;
• alter, amend, modify or change the Material;
• engage in systematic copying or downloading of the Material, other than strictly necessary to view the Material;
• make the Material available in any other form or medium or to create derivative works without the prior written permission from the Publisher;

Contact information

Books: bookorderbenjamins.nl
Journals: subscriptionsbenjamins.nl
John Benjamins Publishing Company, P.O. Box 36224, NL-1020 ME AMSTERDAM,
The Netherlands. Tel +31-20-6304747; Fax +31-20-6739773