Most electronic resources provided by the Abdullahi Fodiyo Library Complex are governed by license agreements that restrict use to currently registered students, Faculty academic staff, and non-academic staff of the University community. The use of each online resource is governed by applicable copyright laws as well as the terms of the license between Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and the publishers/providers.
The following activities are generally prohibited:
1. Commercial Use: Electronic resources licensed to the University are restricted to academic use only. Separate licenses, payments, and permissions are required for commercial use.
2. Downloading: Full or continuous download of a resource (e.g. a complete journal issue).
3. Electronically Transmitting Online Content to non-UDUS affiliates.
4. Use of Robots, Torrents, Web Crawlers or other programs for automatic or systematic downloading of content
5. Creating a Derivative Database from the electronic resource and making it available to others.
6. Sharing IDs and Passwords. Abdullahi Fodiyo Library users should not share their user IDs and passwords, nor should they allow any unauthorized user to gain access to materials licensed to Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.
