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<TD colspan="2" bgcolor="#6600CC"><FONT color="ffffff" size="+1"><B>NACSIS-ELS Site Policy</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD colspan="2">The National Institute of Informatics (NII) is operating NACSIS-ELS.<BR>
      To use this service, you should agree to the following site policy:<BR>
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          <DT>About Copyright 
          <DD>Unless stated otherwise, NII owns copyrights for the contents of 
            databases registered in this service and for the contents of documents, 
            images, and software on the home page of this service. 
          <DD>The copyrights for the contents (documents, abstracts, and texts) 
            to create data from belong to the corresponding academic societies, 
            colleges, or authors. NII creates and provides data with permissions 
            from the copyright holders. 
          <DD>You may not use any of the contents contained in this service without 
            permission from the copyright holder, excluding the cases of exceptions 
            acknowledged in the Copyright Law. 
          <DD>For the provision of this service, no rights based on copyrights, 
            patents, trade rights, and other intellectual properties other than 
            above shall be permitted. 
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          <DT>About Access Log 
          <DD>In this service, access log data is recorded and stored, including 
            the IP address of each user. The collected access log data is used 
            to analyze the tendency of service use in NII and to make reports 
            to the data-providing academic societies. IP addresses will never 
            be used to identify individuals. 
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          <DT>About PDF Use 
          <DD>When a PDF file is downloaded, the user number, the IP address, 
            and the date and time of download are stored in document meta-data 
            for the PDF file. 
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          <DT>Exemption
          <DD>NII will take no responsibility for any damage caused by the use 
            of this service. 
          <DD>Note that NII will take no responsibility for any damage caused 
            by a change or deletion of the service contents or by an interrupt 
            of this service. 
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          <DT>About Link
          <DD>You are free to link this service except for a purpose or contents 
            against the public order or standards of decency or for display in 
            a frame that is against the Copyright Law. However, the URL is subject 
            to change without notice. 
          <DD>If a link logo is necessary, download the following: 
        <center><IMG src="http://www.nii.ac.jp/images/services/els_logo_s.gif"></center>
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          <DT>User Environment for This Service
          <DD>This service is designed to allow basic browsing, irrespective of 
            the browser type or version. However, some types or versions of browser 
            may not be able to realize some auxiliary functions. 
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          <DT>About Change of the Site Policy 
          <DD>NII may change the contents of this site policy without notice. 
            Changes will be presented at &#147;Notice&#148;. When a user has used 
            this service for the first time after this presentation, the user 
            is supposed to have agreed to the new policy. 
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