From: Ivy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:48:16 +0000
Denise,
The language in the new model Liblicense agreement addresses both TDM
rights and potential costs. It reads:
Text and Data Mining. Authorized Users may use the Licensed Materials
to perform and engage in text and/or data mining activities for
academic research, scholarship, and other educational purposes,
utilize and share the results of text and/or data mining in their
scholarly work, and make the results available for use by others, so
long as the purpose is not to create a product for use by third
parties that would substitute for the Licensed Materials. Licensor
will cooperate with Licensee and Authorized Users as reasonably
necessary in making the Licensed Materials available in a manner and
form most useful to the Authorized User. If Licensee or Authorized
Users request the Licensor to deliver or otherwise prepare copies of
the Licensed Materials for text and data mining purposes, any fees
charged by Licensor shall be solely for preparing and delivering such
copies on a time and materials basis.
CDL hasn't attempted to negotiate this with ProQuest, but this is the
basis on which I would seek to negotiate -
Best,
Ivy Anderson
Director of Collections
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
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From: Denise Troll Covey <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:24:22 +0000
All,
We recently inquired and received ProQuest’s “Content Delivery &
Access Price Sheet” for TDM. The spreadsheet includes pricing and
delivery methods for Historical Newspapers, Official Government
Documents, History Vault, and Historical Periodicals. The prices vary
depending on the delivery method – significantly lower for delivery
from the cloud than delivery via hard drive, but most of the material
is not available for delivery form the cloud. And the prices are
outrageous, especially when you consider that much of the content is
out of copyright and TDM is likely fair use of the content that is
copyright protected. We suspect that library licensing fees covered
ProQuest’s financial investment in scanning/OCRing this material, so
why the exorbitant cost to enable TDM?
Has anyone tried to negotiate with ProQuest to arrive at affordable TDM?
Denise
Denise Troll Covey
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-822X
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