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Re: EJournal Aggregation
Ann Okerson wrote: > > BUT -- surely one of the largest parts of the effort related to accessing > econtent is the *licensing* negotiations. The bind is that aggregators > currently cannot help us with this matter. Does anyone see any way out of > this, or are we (as I believe) in a position of negotiating singly and > directly an increasing number of licenses each month, while waiting a few > years for some acceptable practices and language to emerge? At that > point, the aggregators could add licenses to their arsenal of services for > libraries. The objective of this list and the Liblicense project overall > is to hasten that day; are there other ways? Maybe there are really two types of aggregators on the horizon, one like OCLC which aggergates the content, and one which aggregrates the licence agreements. In some ways, Faxon and Ebsco and the like have been doing this for some time. Each will take a special expertise and investment in infrastructure. Are they not two seperate businesses on the horizon? The content aggregators will also likely become the archive provider, a different from of business again, and potentially another aspect of the license arena. Paul M. Gherman University Librarian 611B General Library 419 21st Avenue South Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37240 Office: (615) 322-7120 Fax: (615) 343-8679 gherman@library.vanderbilt.edu
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