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Who Can Use the LRC

 

  • USU Faculty Students & Staff (Billeted)
  • *USU Faculty (non-billeted)
  • HJF Contractors (not at USU)
  • USU Postgraduate Dental School
  • *Adjunct Faculty
  • *Alumni
  • Other

*Limited services at this time.

Use of Official Email

Please use a personal, non-official email address when registering accounts with third party commercial sites. By direction of USU's Configuration Control Board (CCB), it is prohibited to register for personalized services from third party commercial sites using your official email address ending in "USUHS.EDU", ".MIL", etc. 

User Agreement

USU LRC Online Library Web Services User Agreement

LRC ACCOUNT CONDITIONS

Your LRC Online Library Web Services account and password is for your use only. In order to legally comply with our resource provider contracts, all LRC access must be strictly accounted for. Sharing of your account information is forbidden.

Your LRC Online Library Web Services password is subject to protection policies defined by the U.S. Department of Defense - including the length, sophistication and the duration of the password. The optional use of a DoD Common Access Card (CAC) is supported and encouraged.

If you receive your LRC Online Library Web Services account in the role of a USU Alum:

  1. You must surrender your account privileges as soon as you leave the employ of the U.S. military or federal service. Your privileges are generally contingent upon your Email address (ending in .MIL or .GOV) remaining operational. 
  2. Some resource providers (such as UpToDate) will limit or restrict alumni access to content.

If you receive your LRC Online Library Web Services account in the role of a Distance Learning program student or the Travel Medicine course trainee, you must surrender your privileges on the end date of the course.  Resource utilization, including Inter-library Loan, must be limited to content related to your Distance Learning coursework.

Unless explicitly identified as open access or public domain content, you should act under the assumption that any content provided through this portal is protected under the U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). Content should never be reproduced, redistributed, emailed, or re-posted in any shared digital repository without the expressed written consent of the copyright holder. Content should be used for educational, clinical or scholarly research purposes in accordance with "Fair Use" guidelines and proper attribution. (https://usuhs.libguides.com/copyright)

Databases contain at least some copyrighted data or intellectual property. As a result, all database content (including citations and abstracts) should be treated with the same respect for rights and limitations to copyrighted work as original content.

Content providers do not permit the use of digital "robotic harvesting" or any systematic copying of large quantities of published content to a local computer system. Do not use them - they will be detected.

This portal and its applications adhere to privacy and security policies of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as outlined at https://www.usuhs.edu/privacy-security-links-notice.

In the context of printed or physical materials in one of the circulating collections, or obtained through the Interlibrary Loan channels of the James A. Zimble Learning Resource Center, you agree to be financially responsible for any borrowed materials that are lost, damaged or returned late.

WARNING CONCERNING COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. Of these specified conditions, one is that the photocopy/reproduction is NOT TO BE "USED FOR ANY PURPOSES OTHER THAN PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

The James A. Zimble Learning Resource Center reserves the right to refuse to accept any request for content if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.

By the act of logging in to any LRC application, I acknowledge the Copyright Warning above and agree to the conditions for receiving ER/LRC user privileges.

LRC Privileges by Patron Category

  Access to LRC Main homepage & licensed content (except UpToDate) Access to LRC PDC homepage & licensed content (except UpToDate) Access to UpToDate Submit Interlibrary Loan Requests Sign up for LRC & AWC Brownbag classes Request literature search/review consultations with LRC librarians Request writing consultation with Academic Writing Specialist Request instruction session from LRC Librarians Request instruction from Academic Writing Specialist
Faculty & Staff, Billeted Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Staff, Billeted (GOV and CTR) Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Faculty, Non-billeted, PDC No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, if staff resources are available. Yes, if staff resources are available. Yes, if staff resources are available. Yes, if staff resources are available.
Faculty, Non-billeted, GSN & SOM Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes, if staff resources are available. Yes, if staff resources are available. Yes, if staff resources are available. Yes, if staff resources are available.
Students, GSN & SOM Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3 Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3
Residents, PDC No Yes 2 years after graduation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3 Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3
Students, DL (duration of course only) Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3 Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3
Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, etc. Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3 Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3
Residents, USU Program (Sports Medicine Fellowship) Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3 Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3
PMB Tropical Medicine Course (duration of course only) Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3 Yes, "training on demand" for groups >3
National Capital Consortium (Interns, Residents, Fellows and Program Directors) Yes No Yes No Yes, if seats are available No No Yes, if staff resources are available. Rarely, if staff resources are available.
HJF users, non-USU Yes No No No No No No No No
Alumni (SOM & GSN) in Federal Service Yes No 2 years after graduation No No No No No No
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