From: LIB Copyright <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:53:11 +0000

***Cross-posted to multiple lists; please excuse duplication***

Dear colleagues,

If you are a librarian involved in the licensing of electronic
resources, and/or have any recent experience in facilitating a
researcher’s use of electronic resources for the purposes of Text and
Data Mining (TDM), we would appreciate if you could take 15-20 minutes
to fill out this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z7B6NJK.

We are conducting this survey to identify trends in Text and Data
Mining (TDM) licensing and permissions issues as they intersect with
the work of electronic resources librarians. There is much discussion
in the literature of these issues, but little data on how librarians
are encountering the issue and how they are able to respond.

This survey is derived from a 2015 survey originally created by our
research team member, Hillary Miller, as part of her thesis research.
Therefore, you may have filled out a similar survey last year. We’d
appreciate your responses in particular, as we will compare the
aggregate responses and attempt to identify trends. You have the
option to disclose your institution or remain anonymous in this
survey.

We are casting a wide net across academic libraries in the U.S. in the
hope for a broad response. We are also targeting member libraries of
the Association of Research Libraries to see if that subset of
libraries responds any differently than other academic libraries. They
survey will remain open until September 30th.

If you know a colleague at your institution that is more familiar with
these issues, and who might be a better candidate to fill out the
survey as representative of your institution and library, please
forward this message to them with our thanks.

Thanks in advance for helping us better understand this pressing
issue. We intend to present the findings of this survey at the
Charleston Library Conference in November of 2016.

Respectfully,

UCLA Library

Angela Riggio, Head of Scholarly Communication and Licensing

Martin J. Brennan, Copyright and Licensing Librarian

Roxanne Peck, Librarian for Digital Collection Management

Jennifer Chan, Scholarly Communication Librarian

VCU Libraries

Hillary Miller, Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian

Kendra Godwin, 2016-2017 Associate Fellow, National Library of Medicine