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Re: Non-exclusive licenses & copyright
The point about service with the a&i products is well taken and I would describe it as value added. The success of a&i services, in reselling data in different formats, points to the functionality of the product. Users place greater value on data that "works for them" in this arena, not just the raw data. When full text is abstracted, there is value added for the reader. I think the different models being explored are an attempt to identify other means of determining keys to adding value to primary publishing. One way is to support an interactive dialog on a work that enables readers to respond directly to the author via email or in a moderated listserv environment. This approach supports the concept of community that is so well suited to a web environment, as anyone connected to the network can have the same timely access to a publication in what will eventually be a shorter publication cycle. The publisher may compete with the aggregator on providing the author the best level of support for disseminating their work and make money on the transactions or subscriptions to the service. Judy Luther 102 West Montgomery Ave. #B jluther@earthlink.net Ardmore, PA 19003 610-645-7546 tel 610-645-5251 fax ______________________________ Ann Okerson wrote: > > Karen, et al: I agree that the notion of the non-exclusive license and > provider is not new and that A&I publishers have been working this way for > as much as a couple of decades. That is the industry we look to as a role > model for successful transition from print to e-environment. Mind you, > there are quite a few differences between secondary services and primary > texts such as books and journals, and so it is not clear to me whether the > transition (to e-) by journal publishers will be parallel to A&I, only 20 > years later. In any case, the one difference worth pointing to (maybe) is > the fact that the A&I providers are more generally owners/creators of > their own resources; they hire the staff that do the indexing and > abstracting work as works for hire. It is not frequent that the > ownership, at least of indexing works (though not always of abstracting > works) are in dispute. > > With the journal article, the publisher is not the author, and so a > copyright transfer is generally desired by the publisher, though > increasingly publishers might be becoming less adamant about this. Let's > say that the publisher now receives non-exclusive transfers from authors, > who themselves also make the work available in alternative ways (on their > web sites, on preprint servers, etc.). I suppose one of the biggest > differences is that the publisher, let alone all the e-service providers > or aggregators, could be in a position of competing with the author as > well as with their "usual" competitors (other aggregators). Also, the > competitive edge may come more from service than content. Doesn't this > put additional control in the hands of the successful aggregators (rather > than the primary publishers -- or perhaps even the authors)? > > I'm thinking as I write ... this feels like a different situation than > existing p-world In several important ways.. > > Ann Okerson > Ann.Okerson@yale.edu > _________________________ > > Karen Hunter wrote: > > >Is the notion of non-exclusive licenses to different electronic > >vendors or aggregators really new? Publishers of a & i > >services have made their databases available for years over > >many hosts on a non-exclusive basis -- Dialog, DataStar, > >JICST, Lexis-Nexis, STN, Ovid, OCLC and others now gone. > >The databases are also available for local licensing and on > >CD-ROM. The customer then chooses the access source.
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