Hi Beth
You will probably get heaps of replies like this - we would
also love to
know.
To answer your questions as much as I can:
1. We interpret them pretty much as you have outlined - that
it
forbids electronic transfer and we must print and post the
slow
way. I don't see that it forbids us scanning and emailing
from
the print copy though. Haven't really thought about that
part of
it.
2. Some PDF files are manipulable. It depends on the
software
used to create them and also the software used to read them.
There are lots of options besides Acrobat. I think that's
probably what the publishers are scared of.
3. We are too small to try and negotiate anything other than
standard.
Sorry I can't be more helpful. Also, I realise we have
different
copyright laws here, but overall I think the principles are
the
same. And licence agreements over-ride them anyway I
suspect.
Cheers
Raewyn Adams
Librarian
Tauranga Hospital Library
Bay of Plenty District Health Board
Private Bag 12 024 Tauranga 3143 NZ
or 840 Cameron Rd Tauranga South 3112 NZ
Telephone: 0064 7 579 8687
Fax: 0064 7 571 6043
mailto:Raewyn.Adams bopdhb.govt.nz
Library TAUM
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu] On Behalf
Of Beth Jacoby
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:48 PM
To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
Subject: Ejournals and ILL
I'd like to hear how other libraries are handling
interlibrary
loan transactions for online journal articles when the
license
agreement forbids electronic transmission of the article.
We
recently signed two separate license agreements which,
according
to my interpretation, do not allow us to fulfill ILL
requests
unless we print out the article and send it via snail mail.
Wording of the license from the first publisher: "The
Subscriber
may print and deliver Excerpts to fulfill requests as part
of the
practice commonly known as 'interlibrary loan' from
non-commercial libraries located within the same country as
the
Subscriber."
Wording of the license from the second publisher: "The
subscribing Institution's library facilities are permitted
to use
printouts from the electronic versions of the Journals, but
not
manipulable electronic files, for the purpose of
inter-library
loan, subject to the limitations of Section 108 of the
Copyright
Act of 1976 and the CONTU Guidelines related thereto."
If we get an ILL request for an article we have only in
print,
our current practice is to scan the article and send it to
the
requesting library as a PDF document. As I interpret these
licenses, we may neither send the article from the e-version
nor
scan the print and send it as a PDF for ILL purposes.
1. How do you interpret these clauses?
2. Would you consider a PDF file as
"manipulable"?
3. Have you had any success in negotiating more liberal ILL
clauses?
Beth Jacoby
Collection Development Librarian
Schmidt Library
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA 17405-7199
Email: bjacobyycp.edu
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