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.

Bley, Robert, and Ross MacIntyre. "NESLI--The National Electronic Site License Initiative." Vine, no. 110 (1998): 34-37.

Borin, Jacqueline. "Site License Initiatives in the United Kingdom: The PSLI and NESLI Experience." Information Technology and Libraries 19 (March 2000): 42-46.

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]

Cox, John. "Model Generic Licenses: Cooperation and Competition." Serials Review 26, no. 1 (2000): 3-9.

Crews, Kenneth D. "Licensing for Information Resources: Creative Contracts and the Library Mission." In Virtually Yours: Models for Managing Electronic Resources and Services, ed. Peggy Johnson and Bonnie MacEwan, 98-110. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999.

Davis, Trisha L. "Legal Issues: The Negotiator's Perspective for Getting to the Heart of the License." In Virtually Yours: Models for Managing Electronic Resources and Services, ed. Peggy Johnson and Bonnie MacEwan, 118-126. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999.

__________. "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. "License Compliance." Serials Review 26, no. 1 (2000): 53-58.

_________. "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.

Friedgood, Beverley. "The UK National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative." Serials 11 (March 1998): 37-39.

Guernsey, Lisa. "California State U. Tries to Create a New Way to Buy On-Line Journals." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 22 January 1999, A18-A19.

Harwood, Paul. "NESLI: An Agent for Change or Changing the Agent?" The Electronic Library 18, no. 2 (2000): 121-126.

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.

________. "The LIBLICENSE Project and How It Grows." D-LIB Magazine 5 (September 1999). [HTML file]

________. "Scholarly Communication and the Licensing of Electronic Publications." In The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community: An International Workshop Organized by the Academia Europaea and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, ed. I. Butterworth, 110-118. London: Portland Press, 1998. [HTML file]

________. "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.

Prior, Albert. "NESLI--Progress Through Collaboration." Learned Publishing 12 (January 1999): 5-9.

Samuelson, Pamela. "Does Information Really Want to Be Licensed?" The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4, no. 3 (1999). [HTML file]

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]

Webb, John. "Managing Licensed Networked Electronic Resources in a University Library." Information Technology and Libraries 17 (December 1998): 198-206.

Wise, Alicia. "NESLI--Implications Outside the HE Community." Ariadne, no. 20 (1999). [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, 1996-2000. <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>.