[ILL-L] Question about licensing agreement

[Melissa Jackson]

Hi everyone!

It's time for us to renew our licence with Oxford University Press Journal's online package, and they want to put an odd bit of wording in there.  They want us to track how many times we send an article from their journals to a library, and as soon as we hit 6 in 5 years or less they want US to pay copyright.  They say that because we now have ILLiad this is possible.

I think they're wrong. My understanding of copyright law/guidelines that the responsibility rests on the borrower to keep track and report to the CCC, not the lenders.  Has anyone else heard otherwise?  Does anyone else have language like this in your electronic license(s)?   Can anyone recommend a way to successfully argue OUP out of this new rule?

Thank you very much for your advice in this matter.  We /really/ don't want to agree to this, and appreciate any tips on how to get OUP to back off.


Melissa Jackson
ILL Librarian
melissa.jackson at armstrong.edu