[ILL-L] Question about licensing agreement

[Michelle Parry]

They can try to initiate any contract restrictions, but it's important, 
in my opinion, for libraries to negotiate contracts, not just sign them 
without negotiation. In a number of instances, changes are agreed to, 
and if all libraries are pushing to preserve their rights, as well as, 
in this case, to not agree to paying even more fees just because the 
publishing company (be it academic or seemingly academic, or just 
out-n-out independent for-profits) wants to push the envelope. We try to 
read our contracts/licenses carefully for online journal & aggregator 
subscriptions, and recently successfully negotiated to eliminate not 
being able to interlibrary loan articles in a contract for the online 
journal subscription. We all need to spend what I know is already 
precious time doing this, or libraries are going to be in a really tough 
spot very soon.

Melissa, I forwarded your email to our library director, associate 
director & our coordinator of collection development & acquisitions with 
a "heads-up" . Thanks for sharing this info, and if anyone from Oxford 
University Press reads this listserv - shame on you.

Michelle

Document Delivery wrote:
> It's nice that they let you lend at all, but I agree with your interpretation of where the rule of 5 responsibility rests, though I guess they can make any contract they want, Ed.
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> Hi everyone!
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Melissa Jackson
> ILL Librarian
> melissa.jackson at armstrong.edu
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