RE: non-negotiation license question

["Scott Stangroom" <stangroom@library.umass.edu>]

Judy - Thank you for your comments. I appreciate what you're 
saying, and perhaps what I asked of Matt was crass. 
Nevertheless, what he reports speaks of the increasing arrogance 
and unprofessional nature of some companies who do business with 
libraries. I am not at all empathetic towards businesses whose 
practice it seems is to highjack copyright, and control our 
purses.  Yes, I agree, praise when praise is earned, but I think 
we should also call out when responsibility is warranted. 
Otherwise we will continue to face more and more restrictive use 
terms, promises of confidentiality, and the deterioration of 
rights of fair use and the like.

Scott

______________________
Scott Stangroom
Acquisitions Coordinator
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
Acquisitions Dept.
Amherst, MA 01003-9275
stangroom@library.umass.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu [mailto:
owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Schwartz, Judy
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 6:48 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: non-negotiation license question

Scott - probably if each one of us responded individually to 
Matt, he'd say. However it is always a tricky business to call 
out a particular vendor on any professional list - unless of 
course it's a positive response.

Judy Schwartz
Director of Library Services
Trocaire College
http://library.trocaire.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Stangroom
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 7:21 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: non-negotiation license question

We have not at UMass Amherst. I think you should cancel and I
also think you should tell us who the publisher is - we should
not let these people bully us the way they try to do.

Scott

______________________
Scott Stangroom
Acquisitions Coordinator
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
Acquisitions Dept.
Amherst, MA 01003-9275
stangroom@library.umass.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Person
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 9:20 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: non-negotiation license question

A major publisher from whom we purchase 15% worth of our serials has
told us that our single non-serial purchase from them will be covered by
a new non-negotiation policy license which will only require our
signature.

This "non-negotiation" license is indeed the publisher's standard
license. The license itself references nothing having to do with
"non-negotiation"

The publisher won't answer questions about their policy, so we find
ourselves considering cancellation of this valuable resource, because of
such low quality customer support and awareness.

Has anyone recently encountered any similar situation?

Thanks,
Matt Person

Matthew Person
Technical Services Coordinator
MBLWHOI Library
MBL Center for Library and Informatics