RE: E-COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT POLICY

["Abigail Bordeaux" <bordeaux@binghamton.edu>]

Dear Lesley, We just got IFS Online and this is what I sent them:

http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/techproblems.html#buonly (the
section on the left)

When patrons access e-resources through our catalog, they are forced
through a pop-up window that contains the same statement.

It isn't really a policy, but it's what we have, and I haven't heard any
objections yet.

I have had one other request for this kind of policy, and I think it came
from Blackwell Publishing.

Best,

Abigail Bordeaux
Electronic Resources Access Librarian
Binghamton University Libraries
PO Box 6012 / Vestal Parkway E.
Binghamton, NY  13902-6012
607.777.3217
bordeaux@binghamton.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Lesley Tweddle
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:39 PM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: E-COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT POLICY
>
> I am fairly new to this List and am wondering whether it is the right
> place for me to ask such a humdrum question.
>
> My question is prompted by the International Monetary Fund's licence
> agreement for International Financial Statistics Online. Unlike any of
> our other database suppliers, they require us to submit, as part of the
> licence agreement, documents evidencing, not merely our copyright 
> policy, but our copyright enforcement policy.
>
> This University is in the process of drawing up an Academic Honesty
> policy, and I think copyright observance could well be included under 
> that heading.  I am also a member of a very recently formed Copyright
> Compliance Guidelines Committee set up by our Dean.  Can anyone point me
> to copyright enforcement measures used by other universities, in
> connection with databases?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Lesley Tweddle
> ltweddle@aucegypt.edu, tel. 797-6912
> American University in Cairo - Libraries & Learning Technologies.