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From: Jim Stemper <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:39:44 -0500

The presentation that Ted Bergstrom gave at the 2011 ARL meeting, "Watching
your cards in The Big Deal," which summarizes his work with Paul Courant in
obtaining copies of library licenses via FOIA requests, doesn't speak well
for the effect of NDAs:

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/mm11sp-bergstrom.pdf

See especially the slides "Elsevier Freedom Package Big Deals 2009" and
"Variation in Elsevier Contracts."

Jim Stemper
University of Minnesota Libraries

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