Re: Including eReserve provisions in licensing contracts

[Kent Mulliner <mulliner@ohio.edu>]

         I would concur with the comments by Rick Anderson and
David Goodman on the absence of a need to include a specific
e-reserves clause to use for e-reserves.

         I do recall, and the publisher(s) slip my mind, where e-reserves
were prohibited.  In those cases, I had no problem removing the clause
when I indicated that "e-reserves" in our usage simply meant providing a
link.  Those publishers had thought that it meant that we would be
downloading and mounting our own copy of an article.  With a durable
URL, I think we'd be foolish to want to do that.

         kent mulliner

K. Mulliner       Collection Development Coordinator
Ohio University Libraries               Phone: 740-593-2707
Athens, OH 45701-2978, USA              FAX:    740-593-2708
mulliner@ohio.edu



At 06:28 PM 11/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I realize that some databases do not have stable URLs, in which case it is
>impractical to include links to particular documents in those databases.
>However, each document in many databases, e.g. JSTOR, does have a stable
>URL, and therefore would complement eReserve services.
>
>If your library provides instructional support via electronic reserve,
>when negotiating the license for a particular database, do you also
>negotiate some amount of linking (up to, and including, unlimited) from
>eReserve to the licensed database/s?
>
>How easy, or gnarly, is that part of the negotiations?
>
>Which providers have been the most cooperative?
>
>Have you ever had to negotiate ereserve links as a separate
>contract/license?
>
>
>Karen Taylor
>Reserve and Prospector Services