From: "Adams, Stephanie" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:52:55 +0000

We are a public institution and required to get approval for
click-through or passive agreements at the point of purchase.  I have
only been in my position for a year and have not run across any trials
where a signed license was required merely for the trial.  However, we
encountered one trial with a click-through agreement.  It took a week
or two, but I was able to have our sales contact work with their IT
department to allow us to bypass the click-through agreement.

When the vendor sent us the original link for the trial, I noticed
that if I clicked "I DO NOT ACCEPT" or didn't click anything at all
and closed my browser, I was taken directly to the trial the next time
I clicked on the trial link.  However, you can't really instruct
patrons to go about accessing a trial that way, so as I mentioned, the
vendor's IT contact was able to remove the click-through requirement.
This trial only ended recently so we haven't decided whether or not to
purchase.  If we purchase, I'm curious to see if we are required to
sign a license or if the click-through agreement will be all that is
necessary.

Stephanie J. Adams, MSLS
Electronic Resources Librarian/Assistant Professor
Angelo & Jennette Volpe Library
Tennessee Tech University
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-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Wobbe <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 06:36:29 -0700

Hi Nancy,

I'm not at a public institution, but we have to get legal counsel's
approval if a license is required for a trial.  Even a click-through
agreement. I've got an 8 page one on my desk at the moment. What a
headache!

Linda Wobbe
Saint Mary's College of CA


> On Apr 16, 2014, at 4:48 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Nancy Egan <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:53:38 +0000
>
> Hello. Are there any librarians who work in public institutions who’ve
> had to have legal counsel look over (and approve) a vendor’s licensing
> agreement just to run a database trial?  In one instance here, a
> vendor required a signature for a trial so the lawyer had to sign.
> However, now there’s been some suggestion that any vendor licenses
> should be reviewed before a trial—regardless of whether a signature is
> needed or not. Is this required (or has it been “suggested”) anywhere
> else?
>
> Thanks, Nancy Egan