To all the international students:

Recently, some international students have been punished for the wrong use of university electronic resources. International Student Office is highly concerned about this issue.

To normalize the use of university electronic resources, the International Student Office lists the relevant clauses as follows, and requests all international students to obey them:

1. Any individual shall not continuously, systematically, or centrally download the literature and hoard data. Each account is only allowed to continuously download less than 50 full texts once in one database.

2. It is strictly prohibited to use any multithreaded download tool or other non-normal means to bulk download electronic resources.

3. No individual shall provide the documents obtained to the external personnel, nor shall the personal network account be provided to the external personnel for the use of the university's electronic resources, nor shall the use of the electronic resources of the library be used for any profit-making activities.

4. Any individual, wanting to set up a proxy server, must get the library's permission.

Any individuals who violate the above provisions shall be punished in accordance with the following provisions:

i. University shall take disciplinary measures against violators, and stop their access to all resources in the library.

ii. If the violation is severe and violates the law, the violators shall bear legal responsibilities.

iii. In the case of intellectual property disputes, the violators shall bear legal responsibility.

School of International Education

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

March 29, 2018