RE: Peggy Hoon on licenses

["Emery, Jill" <j.emery@austin.utexas.edu>]

Dear Peter,

Is SERU (Shared E-Resource Understanding) :
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru not a good alternative to "a
standard reality-based library license."?

I've had some relative success with getting smaller publishers and
academic societies to accept SERU in place of a license
agreement.

All the best,

Jill Emery
Head of Acquisitions
The University of Texas at Austin
UT Libraries
Austin, TX 78713
e: j.emery@austin.utexas.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Peter B. Hirtle
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:25 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Peggy Hoon on licenses

Peggy Hoon has an important post on the current state of library
licensing at

http://www-apps.umuc.edu/blog/collectanea/2011/02/running-in-circles-copyright-1.html

Entitled "Running In Circles: Copyright, Licensing, and the
Educational Environment," Hoon notes that in spite of decades of
work, "libraries are still slogging through, license by license,
the same terms, over and over, that are either legally prohibited
or reflect an unrealistic view of a university library
environment."  She concludes that "there simply has to be a
better way," and argues that we need to try again to create "a
standard reality-based library license."

Peter B. Hirtle
Senior Policy Advisor
Digital Scholarship Services
Cornell University Library
2B53 Kroch Library
Ithaca, NY  14853
peter.hirtle@cornell.edu