From: Ted Bakamjian <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:34:48 +0000
Greetings,
We are contacting Dr. Junkes-Kirchen offline but wanted to let the
LIBLICENSE community know that this was a bureaucratic oversight on
our part, not a policy problem. SEG does adapt its standard license to
accommodate reasonable local needs. Anyone with an SEG licensing
question should feel free to contact Maria Moyer, SEG publications
sales representative, at [log in to unmask]
Sincerely,
Ted
Ted Bakamjian, IOM, CAE | Associate Executive Director, Knowledge Management
+1.918.497.5506 direct
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
8801 South Yale Avenue, Suite 500 Tulsa, OK 74137-3575 USA
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:12:26 -0400
From: LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Concerns with Governing Law terms
From: "Dr. Klaus Junkes-Kirchen" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:48:21 +0200
Dear colleagues
I need some advice in regard of negotiating license terms with a
provider from the USA. Several weeks ago we wanted to subscribe a
journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists SEG. We had a
running subscription combined print and online and wanted to continue
e-only. Promptly we received an Institutional User License to sign.
Unfortunately it contained a clause concerning governing law, in this
case that of the State of Oklahoma. As I am obliged to decline to
accept governing law terms others than that of Germany or either stay
silent about this, I deleted this clause and send the paper back with
the proposition to accept with this deletion. I never received an
answer up to now, no denial of my proposal, nothing. As we obtain this
subscription via EBSCO I requested EBSCO to help. They even called via
fon to the person in charge within SEG, but without success.
Well, as this behavior is unusual and unexpected on my side, I am
puzzling how to proceed…
At the moment we have no access, but there seems to be no demand from
faculty, as I still have heard no complaints. So maybe we can save the
money and let it be ;-)
What I am wondering about is, that all the efforts of creating
standard terms for licensing from LIBLICENSE and SERU there are still
so many publishers and providers holding in place their own licensing
terms and stubbornly complicating negotiation. How easy life could be
for e-resources librarians if there would be a code of practice
between publishers and libraries to avoid redundant concerns with
license language.
Well, I do not expect the solution to make me happy but maybe there
are some words of comfort from you.
Best regards from Germany
Klaus
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Dr. Klaus Junkes-Kirchen
Head of Acquisitions and Licensing
University Library Frankfurt
Bockenheimer Landstr. 134-138
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49 (0)69 798 39272
www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
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