Restrictions on the use of electronic resources with artificial intelligence tools

Agreements with certain electronic resource providers contain clauses restricting the use of their resources with artificial intelligence tools. For the moment, the following restrictions apply:

ScienceDirect (Elsevier and Wiley)

Open access publications with a CC-BY licence may be used with any type of available AI tool, may be used for the development and training of any AI tool, and the results, including content, may be freely shared.

Licensed content (closed publications) or open access publications with a restrictive CC-BY-NC-ND licence, where the publishers (Elsevier and Wiley) hold all rights or certain key rights such as the right to create derivative works, may be used:

• with closed versions of AI tools that do not train the algorithm, do not learn from the data, or do not integrate the data into the AI tool (for example, OpenAI’s “non-learning” subscription version of ChatGPT Team). The use of the closed version may be subject to fees and/or restrictions.
• with open versions of learning AI tools or to develop your own AI tool or platform, provided that it is used in a secure, user-controlled environment (i.e. self-hosted in an on-premises environment or in an environment hosted externally solely for use by Participating Institutions or Authorised Users).

Results generated or platforms developed with the help of AI may be published and made available for research and teaching, provided that they do not contain or reproduce content from closed or CC-BY-NC-ND publications. Links to closed publications are permitted.

The commercial use of AI-generated content or platforms is prohibited.