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Re: American Meteorological Society License Available
I appreciate Ann's kind words regarding our license agreement for the AMS journals online -- we worked hard to make it library-friendly. I just wanted to make a small correction to her message. Dr. Richard Hallgren is our Executive Director. I am the Associate Executive Director and serve as director of publications. Keith Seitter __________________________ At 10:39 PM 2/5/98 -0500, you wrote: >Keith Seitter, Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society, >has made the AMS's online Journals Subscription Agreement (i.e., contract >or license) available to all of us. It's linked as a "What's New" on the >LIBLICENSE web site. > >http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense > >This Agreement has many things going for it, including its brevity >(yes, that is a virtue indeed, compared to some of the 10-25 page >documents that libraries read and respond to). More to the point >are the: fair use-friendly language, treatment of "occasional" (i.e., >walk-in) users, treatment of remote sites/campuses, sensible >language about liability/enforcement, and long-term access, among >other things. > >Read it; it's an Agreement that makes sense for electronic journals. >And, yes, of course, it could be longer and more comprehensive, but >does it need to be? We don't think so. > >Ann Okerson >Ann.Okerson@yale.edu > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Keith L. Seitter phone: 617-227-2426 ext. 220 Associate Executive Director fax: 617-742-8718 American Meterological Society e-mail: kseitter@ametsoc.org 45 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108-3693 http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS ----------------------------------------------------------------
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