RE: Multi-Site licensing language

["Ingrassia, Barbara" <Barbara.Ingrassia@umassmed.edu>]

Hello,

I would like to revive this conversation, please.

We are a "stand-alone medical school"  ---with one campus, one IP 
range, one administration.

Our students and faculty also work in our clinical partner--which 
has hospitals in multiple towns--including one on the school 
campus. The clinical system has one IP range and a central admin. 
(Of course the individual hospitals also have local admin.)

Naturally, we work very closely together and depend on each 
other.  We do a lot of goal-setting together; the higher 
administrators of both the school and clinical are presently 
housed in the school building so that they can work closely 
together. A few service functions for both are carried out by one 
office.

The "official addresses" of the school and the clinical system 
are not the same. The 2 IP ranges are not the same.

We are getting push-back from pubs to our tradition/practice of 
several years of being licensed as a single site. Whereas in the 
past we submitted FTE of students and faculty, now we are often 
being asked to submit employee numbers for the entire clinical 
system.

What is your advice, please?

Thank you very much!

Barbara Ingrassia
UMass Medical School

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris
(Morris Associates)
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:52 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Multi-Site licensing language

I've always thought it more useful to think in terms of licensing 
a network, rather than a physical place.  Indeed, this wording 
was used in the first industry 'model license' I worked on.

Sally Morris
Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Julie Blake
Sent: 04 April 2009 03:29
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Multi-Site licensing language

Georgie,

This definition seems to be up to each individual
publisher/licensor. We try to get away from defining "site" at
all, and try to stick with "authorized users" instead. We'll say
something like, "we want to license this for all of our faculty,
staff, students, researchers, walk-ins and alumni no matter where
they are" and go from there.

Many publishers still think of a site as any place that would
have had a separate print subscription.

Julie C. Blake
Acquisitions Coordinator
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
julie.blake@jhu.edu