[ILL-L] ILL licensing restrictions w/ EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.

[John Stephens]

 From what I've seen of our license agreements, both for aggregators and 
for publishers we deal with directly, the usual restriction would be to 
not mention ILL explicitly at all, unless you have people who handle 
licenses actively negotiating for ILL allowances. I'll go out on a limb 
and say that yes, resource sharing will be spelled out globally for an 
aggregator, when it's spelled out at all, but you still might find that 
you have to see if "ILL is specifically prohibited by the publisher in 
the copyright statement within an individual record" (from one of our 
agreements.) When it is allowed, you can see all kinds of variations, 
like allowing a hard copy to be lent but not an electronic copy, 
requiring that the borrowing institution meet certain criteria, etc. 
You'd have to dig up the actual licenses for your particular institution 
to know for sure what you can and can't do, but most publishers will 
have a generic license somewhere on their website if you dig enough, for 
example:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/tacou.html
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

Hope this helps!

John Stephens
Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
Mercer University Atlanta (GMA/GAUMUD)


Nathan Hosburgh wrote:
>
> General question re: licensing agreements w/ aggregators such as 
> EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.
>
> What kind of restrictions do they usually put on ILL/resource sharing 
> of licensed content? I’m having trouble finding the license agreements 
> at our library. Would stipulations re: resource sharing fall under the 
> particular publishers w/n the EBSCO product (Academic Search 
> Complete), for instance, or be spelled out globally by the aggregator? 
> I’m particularly interested in restrictions on electronic delivery of 
> licensed content.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nate
>
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