From: Laura Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:11:22 +0000

Dear Steve,

The key thing to find out is whether emeritus (i.e. retired staff) are
named as authorised users in the licences for your subscription
products.

In the UK, the Jisc model licence
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Help-and-information/How-Model-Licences-work/
is used for many resources, and its recommended wording includes the
following definition as an Authorised User: "a member of staff of the
Institution (whether permanent or temporary including retired members
of staff and any teacher who teaches Authorised Users registered in
the United Kingdom)."

It does mean having to check the wording for each licence carefully to
see if this or similar wording is used, but you will then be able to
create a list of resources for which retired staff are eligible
authorised users, and then accommodate this match of usertype and
resource pool in your authentication systems.

In the licences I've seen, the expression "retired staff" tends to be
used, rather than person Emeritus/Emerita which is helpful as it is
objective rather than depending on the awarding of a special status,
and also grants access to all retired staff, not just the most senior.

Hopefully your US licenses will mention retired staff somewhere, and
this may explain why the emeritus term isn't appearing anywhere.

Best wishes,
Laura

Laura J. Wilkinson
E-Resources Librarian, University of Sunderland Library Services
Murray Library, Chester Road, Sunderland SR1 3SD
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Oberg <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:45:33 +0000

I have a practical question for members of this discussion list. For
those of you who are in an academic institution, do you provide
emeritus faculty with online access to licensed content? Do you
differentiate between those who are retired vs. those who are awarded
the emeritus title? (My understanding is that in my institution, at
least, the granting of emeritus status is not automatic upon
retirement.) Let’s assume also that emeritus faculty already have full
network access, an institutional email account, etc.

Another question I have about this issue is, how does this fit with
your existing license agreements? I’ve looked through ours and have
yet to find one that specifically mentions emeritus faculty as
authorized users. I don’t interpret that to mean they aren’t
authorized, necessarily — just that this status isn’t specifically
mentioned, at least as far as I can see.

Steve

Steve Oberg
Assistant Professor of Library Science
Electronic Resources and Serials
Wheaton College (IL)

NASIG Executive Board Member-At-Large