Covenant for electronic information Dutch publishers and scienti

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Ellen van Hattem of Stichting SURF in the Netherlands sends this important
announcement to Liblicense-l.

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Forwarded message:
>From hattem@surfbureau.nl  Thu Jul  9 10:34:03 1998
From: Ellen van Hattem <hattem@surfbureau.nl>
Organization: Stichting SURF 030-2346600
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:36:46 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Covenant for electronic information Dutch publishers and scienti


As promised I herewith mail you the press release about the covenant
between IWI en the Dutch publishers. Thanks for the distribution to 
liblicense-l.

Kind regards,

Ellen van Hattem

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P R E S S    R E L E A S E  (summarized)

joint press release of the Scientific and Professional Publishers of
the Dutch Publishers Association (WPU) and the co-operative body
Innovation Scientific Information Supply (IWI)

9 July 1998

Publishers and scientific institutions are to work together more
closely Covenant for user licences for electronic scientific
information.

The Scientific and Professional Publishers of the Dutch Publishers
Association (WPU) and the scientific educational and research
institutions that are participating in the co-operative body
Innovation Scientific Information Supply (IWI), have agreed on joint
principles for entering into licensing agreements for electronic
information. In addition, they have agreed to an experiment into
interlibrary loans in an electronic environment.

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The WPU/IWI covenant and the complete text of the press release can be
consulted on the website of the Stichting SURF (SURF Foundation):
http://www.surfbureau.nl/iwicovenant.htm
http://www.surfbureau.nl/iwipress.htm

For further information please contact:
Mr A.D.H. Fockema Andreae, director of the Dutch Publishers
Association T + 31 20 4309150 
Mrs mr C.G.E. van Hattem,  PR-manager IWI/Stichting SURF T + 31 30 
2346600
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      T 030 234 66 00 - F 030 233 29 60
         e-mail: hattem@surfbureau.nl 
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