Re: Click through licenses for users

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

When I was a publisher, we set up arrangements for a short "splash screen"
giving simple terms and conditions which came up whenever the user
accessed an article. This idea was not implemented because the company
(Chapman & Hall) was taken over.

My thinking was that publishers, while realising that librarians will do
all they can to educate users, must accept that they (librarians) can only
do so much and in any case will not be able to accept responsibility for
the actions of their users. Hence a wish to help in the education of the
users, since, in the electronic environment, they are not going to a
product in the library but to the site of the publisher or aggregator

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: Leslie Button <button@library.umass.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:03 AM
Subject: Click through licenses for users


> We notify users of use and conditions for various electronic resources in
> our bibliographic instruction classes and through other means.  However,
> we have been contemplating place a front-end terms of use on our homepage.
> It would be an intermediary between the individual selecting the product
> they want to access and the product itself.  Are any other libraries doing
> this (seems to me I've heard of a few that are)?  Was it reasonably easy
> to implement?  How have library users reacted?  If any of you have done
> this/know of an institution that has, did you construct a page for each
> product or did you use a more generic notification?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Leslie Button
> Head, Acquisitions Department
> University of Massachusetts Library
> Amherst, MA  01003-9275
> button@library.umass.edu