From: Anne McKee <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:48:53 -0700 Happy week of Thanksgiving! I know this is a short week for many, but I’ve been negotiating with a major publisher for over 2 months with their license. We had a conference call today about the remaining issues—one being the usage statistics this publisher wants our members to send them for articles that individual authors have added to their institution’s IR. “The Licensee will make reasonable efforts to provide XXXX annually with statistics about the number of articles deposited each year by Authorized Users (or the Library’s library staff on their behalf) under this provision, together with usage data about the number of accesses to and downloads of such articles, consistent with applicable privacy and confidentiality laws. “ This license also is insisting on a 12 month embargo and has COUNTER compliance required I have strenuously objected to this over and over saying this would be an onerous (and almost impossible) compulsory mandate for our members. I’ve sent this out to our membership this am and I’ve already received 7 responses saying that this would prove almost impossible to do-particularly if they want the article level. Said publisher has expressed surprise stating that ALL their licenses have had this language for the past year and neither consortia nor libraries have objected to this. Anne E. McKee, M.L.S. Program Officer for Resource Sharing Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) [log in to unmask] www.GWLA.org