Know your limits: Download responsibly
Yale University Library provides access to an extraordinary wealth of online resources, including journals, e-books, and digitized archives. Most resources are acquired through license agreements that explicitly prohibit systematic downloading of large quantities of content. When large-scale downloading occurs (intentionally or unintentionally), publishers protect their content by shutting down our access. Access may be blocked only for the IP address from which the improper traffic originates, but can also extend to the entire Yale network.