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Re: Hot links to electronic articles in databases and e-journals for E-reseves

I would be inclined to agree. It's one thing to copy material from a vendor's platform and host it on your own servers (a more traditional method of e-reserves), but it's another simply to take advantage of a direct linking capability built into a vendor's platform. The former would require a special clause in the license; the latter typically would not.

There may be occasional exceptions. I can think of one or two we've encountered with particularly difficult publishers. Nevertheless, those can be addressed on a case-by-case basis and do not demand a systematic reworking of all licenses.

David Bickford
University of Phoenix


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodman" <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
To: <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Hot links to electronic articles in databases and e-journals
for E-reseves

I think it unnecessary to insist on such provisions, or ask for permission, because all site licenses inherently provide the right. What every individual at the university can access, a group of them can. A few licenses purport to say otherwise; I consider the terms self-contradictory.

Licenses based on simultaneous access are another matter. If the class is small enough that 1 user at a a time is sufficient, permission is equally unnecessary. If multiple simultaneous access is needed, it would have to be paid for.

In general, I think we do not do well to negotiate for rights we already have.

David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
dgoodman@princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Kathy Tezla <ktezla@carleton.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 8:23 pm
Subject: Hot links to electronic articles in databases and e-journals for
E-reseves
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

I know the question of providing hot links to e-journal
articles via E-reserve services has been discussed in the past.
I also see that there is the following language in the Standard
License Agreement on the Liblicense web site _ "Electronic
Reserve._ Licensee and Authorized Users may use a reasonable
portion of the Licensed Materials for use in connection with
specific courses of instruction offered by Licensee and/or its
parentinstitution."

Generally has the above language been adopted by vendors when
negotiating the license for a particular database or e-journal
package?

We have a number of licenses that we set up before our
e-reserve service was established. Have you gone back to each
agreement and updated to include the above language?

Kathy E. Tezla, Head Collection Development
Laurence McKinley Gould Library-Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057