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RAPRA is a bibliographic and directory database dedicated exclusively to rubber, plastics, adhesives, and polymeric composites. The database covers the worldwide scientific, technical, and trade literature, as well as patent documents relevant to the rubber and plastics industries and published since 1994 by the European Patent Office, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. The directory part of RAPRA consists of company address records and tradename records.
There is a wide scope of subjects in the database encompassing technical, academic, commercial, and marketing aspects of the rubber and plastics industries.
Citations contain bibliographic data, in-depth indexing both in American and British spelling, and an abstract.
The database corresponds to the printed Rapra Abstracts, Adhesives Abstracts, and Rapra New Tradenames.
Rapra Technology Ltd. Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY4 4NR United Kingdom Phone: (+44) 1939 250383 Fax: (+44) 1939 251118 Copyright HolderDatabase Supplier
FIZ Karlsruhe P.O. Box 2465 D-76012 Karlsruhe Germany STNmail: HLPDESKK Phone: (+49) 7247/808-555 Fax: (+49) 7247/808-131 E-mail: helpdesk@fiz-karlsruhe.de
The following database producer's special conditions for use of
his database(s) apply to your use of the RAPRA file on STN.
I. General Part
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1. Scope
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Section 2 to 4 of these conditions apply to all databases
offered via STN Karlsruhe as far as no differing regulations are
specified under II. Special Part.
2. Customers
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A customer is an individual or an institution (i.e. a legal body
such as a university, public authority, company) for whom online
access has been ordered.
3. Search Results
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All rights are reserved. Search results delivered online or
offline are only for internal (own) use of the customer. No
written permission of the database producer is required if
search results delivered to the customer in computer-readable
form are used only for internal purposes of the customer, i.e.
printed, processed, modified, or linked with other data (e.g.
for creating a database). The customer must observe the
copyright of the database producer.
Results from searches carried out by the customer on request, or
on behalf of individuals or institutions (see under 2.) outside
his own institution (third parties) may only be given to them
for explicit internal use. The transmitted search results must
include the database producer's copyright. For safety purposes,
the customer may keep a copy of the results obtained from a
search carried out for third parties.
The customer must obtain database producer's specific written
permission for any further uses of search results obtained for
third parties, particularly for the transmission of search
results in electronic form or their distribution in hardcopy,
e.g. sale, loan, license, or free charge.
The customer must do his/her best efforts in preventing a theft
or inadvertent illicit dissemination of the records.
4. Warranty and Liability
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The database producers shall use their best efforts to deliver
correct information in their databases, however, they do not
accept warrenty and liability for completeness, accuracy and
timeliness unless set out differently in II. Special Part.
II. Special Part
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Users detecting flaws preventing proper use of the data
contained in the databases produced by Rapra shall notify Rapra
thereof, and Rapra will do everything in his power to correct
errors.
Apart from this, Rapra does not give any warranty relating to
the data contained in the databases, and shall not accept
liability for damage unless damage is caused intentionally or by
gross negligence
For more detailed information, view the STN Database Summary Sheet.