5.2 Legal Issues: License Agreements

Allen, Barbara McFadden. "Negotiating Digital Information System Licenses Without Losing Your Shirt or Your Soul." Journal of Library Administration 24, no. 4 (1997): 15-26.

Brennan, Patricia, Karen Hersey, and Georgia Harper. Licensing Electronic Resources: Strategic and Practical Considerations for Signing Electronic Information Delivery Agreements. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1997. [HTML file]

Buchanan, Nancy L. "Navigating the Electronic River: Electronic Product Licensing and Contracts." The Serials Librarian 30, nos. 3/4 (1997): 171-182.

Case, Mary M. "Library Associations Endorse Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources." ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 194 (October 1997): 1-3. [HTML file]

Davis, Trisha L. "License Agreements in Lieu of Copyright: Are We Signing Away Our Rights?" Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 21, no. 1 (1997): 19-28.

Duranceau, Ellen Finnie. "Electronic Journal Forum: Why You Can't Learn License Negotiation in Three Easy Lessons: A Conversation with Georgia Harper, Office of General Counsel, University of Texas." Serials Review 23, no. 3 (1997): 69-71.

Failing, Patricia. "Scholars Face Hefty Fees and Elaborate Contracts When They Use Digital Images." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 May 1998, B4-B5.

Jacobson, Robert L. "Checking the Fine Print on Superhighway Licenses." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 July 1996, A15, A19-A20.

Jamtgaard, Laurel. "Licenses and Information Policy: An Update on UCC Article 2B." ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 198 (June 1998): 1-4. [HTML file]

Menzel, J., K. Metzner, and E. Pope. "IDEAL and APPEAL: A Model for Consortium Licensing of Electronic Journal Collections." Astrophysics and Space Science 247, nos. 1-2 (1997): 241-250.

Okerson, Ann. "Buy or Lease? Two Models for Scholarly Information at the End (or the Beginning) of an Era." Daedalus 125, no. 4 (1996): 55-76. [HTML file]

________. "Copyright or Contract?" Library Journal, 1 September 1997, 136-139.

________. "What Academic Libraries Need in Electronic Content Licenses: Presentation to the STM Library Relations Committee, STM Annual General Meeting, October 1, 1996." Serials Review 22, no. 4 (1996): 65-69. [HTML file]

Olivieri, Rene. "Publishing Economics: The Site License Effect." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 28 (January 1997): 81-91.

________. "Site Licenses: A New Economic Paradigm." The Serials Librarian 30, nos. 3/4 (1997): 183-190.

Peters, Paul Evan. "Making the Market for Networked Information: An Introduction to a Proposed Program for Licensing Electronic Uses." Serials Review 18, nos. 1-2 (1992): 19-24.

Soete, George. "Licensing Electronic Resources: State of the Evolving Art." ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 190 (February 1997): 6-7. [HTML file]

See also: 5.1 Legal Issues: Intellectual Property Rights, and 8.1 Publisher Issues: Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems.

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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-98. <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>.