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The need for common terms for licensing scientific literature and databases: presentation at IFLA 2002
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- 1. The licence trap The need for common terms for scientific
literature and databases Chris Rusbridge, University of
Glasgow09/25/12 1
- 2. Contents Nightmare paper Updating Licence issues Over-riding
law? ePrints issues Service issues09/25/12 2
- 3. Scenario (LIP-LINC, 1996) 20-40 years on? Major shift to
electronic publishing Print journals decimated Scholarly
self-publishing wide-spread Library is a teaching/learning resource
Historians use paper for research09/25/12 3
- 4. Information objects? Hyper-text consequences writing
de-linearised information in chunks or gobbets electronic book not
a self-contained package package boundaries un-clear09/25/12 4
- 5. Copyright licences required for everything? variety of terms
& conditions variety of pricing models impossibility of
adherence: millions of objects, thousands of licences!09/25/12
5
- 6. Preservation problems Legal Technical Organisational (who?)
Financial How to get a continuous commitment measured in hundreds
of years?09/25/12 6
- 7. Updating the scenario Hypertext? Formal writing remains
linear (mostly) 62 journals with embedded multimedia (McKiernan)
Encyclopaedias non-linear but controlled Web resources limited
hypertext but free Eg Perseus Citation linking growing Hypertext at
the article level Still mostly within single resources DOI and
OpenURL based Do hit barriers occasionally; mainly no citation
link!09/25/12 7
- 8. Updating the scenario 2 Licences not so varied Consortia
impact Yale Liblicense site
(http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml) ICOLC
(http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/) CHEST, NESLI, PA-JISC
Model licence in UK (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub99/modellic.pdf)
Industry consolidation Fewer agreement variations BUT many
independent publishers Also many subtle differences09/25/12 8
- 9. Updating the scenario 3 Digital preservation Remote access
model So who preserves? Legal deposit of non-print? Or specific
preservation agreements needed Preserving meaning09/25/12 9
- 10. How big is the problem? University of Glasgow 4500
e-journals from >1300 publishers (only 30 publishers supply >
10 journals, and around 1000 supply only 1 journal) 350 datasets
150 e-books(?) Hundreds of licence agreements, mostly on
paper09/25/12 10
- 11. Licence issues 1 Authorised users Staff? Employees Visiting
Honorary Students? All? Restricted faculty? Restricted location?
Part time? Work placements? Continuing education?09/25/12 11
- 12. Licence issues 2 Walk-ins None? Occasional Registered? All?
All, but require ATHENS authentication? (Not available except for
staff & students!)09/25/12 12
- 13. Licence issues 3 Locations? Library? All or part of (one or
more) campuses? Residence? Workplace? Anywhere in the UK? Anywhere
in the world?09/25/12 13
- 14. Licence issues 4 Special conditions (probably many more)
Ordnance survey complex conditions A major publisher! Permission
needed for local storage of any part of article Except as above
[photocopies, ToCs, lists of articles], no part of this publication
may be reproduced, stored in a computer system or transmitted by
any means, electronic or otherwise, without the prior written
permission09/25/12 of the publisher 14
- 15. Over-riding laws? Eg new Export Control Act Controls on the
transfer of technology by intangible means Related to weapons of
mass destruction and delivery systems Academic freedom
clause09/25/12 15
- 16. Technical issues 1 Technical implementation Lowest common
set; often prohibit walk-in access even where allowed Semantic web
and web services?09/25/12 16
- 17. Technical issues 2 Digital rights management systems Seem
more concerned with tracking ownership and splitting payments (eg
OASIS http://www.oasis- open.org/committees/xacml/, indecs
http://www.indecs.org/) Would need to track user types; interact
with authentication & authorisation systems (eg FDRM
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july02/martin/07ma rtin.html) Would need
to express licence terms (eg XrML2 http://www.xrml.org/) Copyright
expiry & other fair use1709/25/12 issues
- 18. ePrints Subversive proposal Author self-archiving Copyright
issues Between author and publisher, not reader or library and
publisher Pre-prints Prior publication? Post-prints Need rights to
mount09/25/12 18
- 19. Summary Licences becoming more uniform Technical
implementation makes more uniform still Rich technical environments
some way off We are not getting what we pay for!09/25/12 19