Terms of use page

E-resources licensing agreements sometimes require that institutions use reasonable methods to inform their users about restrictions on the terms of use (i.e. non-commercial, no reverse engineering, etc.). Libraries have few good options for putting this information in front of users within the flow of their research.

OpenAthens should provide an option to provide a click-through "terms of use" page at the point of login. It would be simply an institution-branded page with a block of text and and an acknowledgement button. The text would be populated by each institution in the OpenAthens admin area.

In theory this could be done per resource, but I could see that getting complicated and perhaps not be fit for use for a number of reasons. (For example, OpenAthens may have the opportunity to show the page only once per session, even if multiple resources are accessed during that session.) So a simpler option would be a generic terms of use page where libraries would provide general terms (or a link thereto).

Also note that this information could be displayed at the point of login instead of on a unique page, but per another idea on this platform, we are seeking the ability to bypass that OpenAthens login page for most users. So we'd need a distinct terms of use page, rather than adding the terms to the login page.