Re: A question of licences and Alumni members

[Elhanan Adler <elhanan@libnet.ac.il>]

Dear Colleagues

While I have never gone looking for alumni access to any of our subscribed
services, I have come across standard licenses which explicitly allow
alumni access as long as it is coming via the campus network. For example,
the MUSE license states:

"This agreement grants access to the Project Muse database for
educational, research, and personal use by the faculty, staff, students,
alumni and library patrons utilizing the Subscriber's contiguous campus
network. Distance learners, alumni, and other off-campus affiliates may
access Project Muse if their Internet access is through the campus
network. "

see http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/muse.license.html


Elhanan
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> m.borchert@qut.edu.au 07/13/00 07:51PM >>>
> Dear Liblicencers,
> 
> 
> My name is Martin Borchert. I am the Electronic Information Services 
> Librarian at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.
> 
> Discussions with delegates at the IATUL Conference here at QUT last week 
> indicated that some (at least) academic libraries in the US are routinely 
> negotiating with suppliers of electronic products, that their Alumni 
> members have perpetual access rights to those recources.
> 
> This sounds like a great service to be able to offer Alumni members.
> 
> My question to you is... Is it common or rarely that academic libraries 
> routinely include Alumni within licence agreements, and are libraries 
> generally successful in this?
> 
> We currently do not include Alumni in our negotiations, but it sounds very 
> worthwhile.
> 
> Any advice, examples (within confidentiality requirements of course) or 
> feelings you have on this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> 
> Martin
> 
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