From: Jim Stemper <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:39:44 -0500 The presentation that Ted Bergstrom gave at the 2011 ARL meeting, "Watching your cards in The Big Deal," which summarizes his work with Paul Courant in obtaining copies of library licenses via FOIA requests, doesn't speak well for the effect of NDAs: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/mm11sp-bergstrom.pdf See especially the slides "Elsevier Freedom Package Big Deals 2009" and "Variation in Elsevier Contracts." Jim Stemper University of Minnesota Libraries