ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face of restrictive license terms that would otherwise constrain or eliminate those rights. For each term of an e-resource license agreement, the book explores: essentials of the law, desired results, desired language, tricks and traps, and overall importance and risk. Additional sections and tools will be added over time to reflect changes in best practices, business models, and laws and regulations.
The Authors
- Sandra Enimil, Director of Scholarly Communication and Collection Strategy, Yale University Library
- Rachael Samberg, Director, Scholarly Communication & Information Policy, UC Berkeley Library
- Erik Limpitlaw, Digital Collections Licensing Librarian, Stanford University Libraries
- Samantha Teremi, Licensing Librarian, UC Berkeley Library
- Katie Zimmerman, Director of Copyright Strategy, MIT Libraries
The Reviewers
- Sunshine Carter, Director, Collection Strategy & eResource Management, University of Minnesota Libraries
- Faye Christenberry, Collection Strategy and Licensing Librarian, University of Washington University Libraries
- Jen Montavon-Green, Head of Electronic Resources, University of Kentucky Libraries
- Dan Mack, Interim Dean of University Libraries, University of Maryland Libraries
- Wendy Allen Shelburne, Electronic Resources Librarian and Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Library
Legal review by Jaszi Butler PLLC
ISBN: 978-1-948964-60-9
e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries
To cite
Enimil, Sandra, Rachael Samberg, Erik Limpitlaw, Samantha Teremi, and Katie Zimmerman. e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, December 2024. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.eresourcelicensing2024.
