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Licensing E-Journal Bundles from Large Publishers

magazine-stackimage © thebittenword.comARL has released a pre-publication version of an article on “The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012,” which will be featured in the forthcoming Research Library Issues no. 282 (Spring 2013).

 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 279 (June 2012)

RLI issue 279 includes:

  • Digitization of Special Collections and Archives: Legal and Contractual Issues
  • Model Deed of Gift
  • Model Deed of Gift, including Mixed IP Rights
  • Model Digitization Agreement
  • Copyright Risk Management: Principles and Strategies for Large-Scale Digitization Projects in Special Collections
 
 

ARL and LYRASIS Sign Agreement for Licensing Initiative

On November 18, 2011, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and LYRASIS signed an agreement designating LYRASIS as an agent to negotiate licenses for online content on behalf of interested ARL member libraries. This is the culmination of an effort that began in 2010 to identify a strategy for ARL to influence the marketplace regarding licensing rights, technical specifications, and business terms to meet the needs of research libraries.

 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 275 (June 2011): Report of the Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices

RLI issue 275 includes:

  • Report of the Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices
  • White Paper: International Interlibrary Loan
  • White Paper: US Law and International Interlibrary Loan
  • White Paper: Trends in Licensing
 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 269 (April 2010): Special Issue on Strategies for Opening Up Content

RLI issue 269 includes:

  • Strategies for Opening Up Content: Laying the Groundwork for an Open System of Scholarship
  • Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy
  • Improving Access with Open-Access Publishing Funds
  • Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses
  • Opening Up Content in HathiTrust: Using HathiTrust Permissions Agreements to Make Authors’ Work Available
 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 264 (June 2009)

RLI issue 264 includes the following articles:

  • ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses
  • The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry
  • Learning and Research Spaces in ARL Libraries: Snapshots of Installations and Experiments
  • A Different Kind of Conversation: The Sparky Awards and Fresh Views on Change in Scholarly Communication
  • ARL Selects Research Library Leadership Fellows for 2009 10
 
         

Fall Forum 2011: Shaking Up the Norm:Journal Pricing and Valuation

Presented at the ARL/CNI Fall Forum, "21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action," October 2011.

pdf ff11-anderson-ivy.pdf

 
 

The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What's Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone

This report examines the issues associated with moves toward electronic-only publication of journals. It is based in large part on interviews with two-dozen academic librarians and journal publishers. Interviews were conducted with collection officers and others at a dozen ARL member libraries; the rest of the interviews were with publishing staff of societies and university presses, publishing platform hosts, and publishing production consultants.

pdf electronic_transition-2007.pdf

 
 

Performance of or Showing Films in the Classroom

This piece was written in hopes of clarifying one aspect of the confusion on digital delivery of content to the "physical" classroom.

pdf films-in-classroom10sep09.pdf

 
 

ARL E-Book Requirements

This is "Appendix C: Detailed Evaluation Requirements and Desirables" of the 2012 ARL e-book licensing agent RFP, more commonly known as the "ARL E-Book Requirements."

pdf arl-e-book-requirements-2012.pdf

 
 
 
 

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