RE: Proteome BioKnowledge Library License

["Ron Miller" <rmiller@hwwilson.com>]

Let's add clarification on what you want us to count as a search to the
wish list.  Even ICOLC is a little vague on this. If the user selects two
databases from the same publisher and searches them simultaneously with
one query, (possible with our products), should we count that as one or
two searches? Also, this coming fall we will begin hosting our own link
server and offering use of it to all Wilson subscribers. Finding a
citation in one of our databases to an article for which we are not able
to provide full text, the user may search all other open URL compliant
publishers to find the full text in another of the library's electronic
resources and link directly to the full text. Should this count as a
second search?

Ron Miller
Director of Product Management
H.W. Wilson
718-588-8400 xt2743

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Driscoll [mailto:adrian@semantico.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 5:40 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Proteome BioKnowledge Library License

Dear Phil

As a developer who has to help publishers provide the statistics on usage
for subscriptio-based online products (though not Incyte I hasten to add),
I would be interested to clarify what is meant by simultaneous users here.

Adrian Driscoll
Managing Director
Semantico
mailto: adrian.driscoll@semantico.com

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Phil Davis wrote:

> In addition to the regular suspects in the Incyte license, we are adding
> in a clause concerning usage data.  For the amount of money that we are
> considering paying for this product, we need to be able to monitor its
> use.  If anyone else would like to use or modify this clause in their own
> negotiations, you are welcome to it.  --Phil
>
> "Usage Data.  Licensor shall provide to Licensee statistics regarding the
> use of the Licensed Materials by Licensee and/or its Authorized Users.
> Monthly and annual reports shall be delivered to the Licensee, which shall
> include at least the following variables:
>
> a) total number of users
> b) total number of searches
> c) peak number of simultaneous users"
>
>
> Philip Davis, Life Sciences Bibliographer
> pmd8@cornell.edu