I have been a librarian and more recently a publisher and am now an academic researcher. I have never negotiated the sort of agreement being discussed. However I can say that publishers both for their own part and on behalf of the academics they serve do very much want to know the total usage of articles. In particular there is a huge demand from editors and editorial boards of journals. Maybe some helpful suggestions about how compressive downloads stats can be achieved might be offered instead of comments about slippery slopes and suchlike Anthony |
From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:38:38 +0000 Hi Anne, I preface my comment with the caveat that I am not a librarian, nor have I ever been involved in the negotiation of licenses. But I have been involved in open access for a fair time. This type of conflation of what a library pays for in terms of licensing to published content with what locally generated outputs a university can (or not) place into the institutional repository, and subsequent information about those deposits, is the beginning of a very slippery slope. You are correct to be concerned about this clause. If this publisher has had this clause in all of those licenses to date then perhaps it might be worth asking what compliance levels they have enjoyed from the many amenable libraries and consortia? It might be worth also asking for the names of a couple of the more compliant libraries and/or consortia to allow you to consult with them on how they have managed to overcome the issues that you perceive to exist with compliance. I'm sure in this (apparent) new age of sharing and openness your publisher would be more than happy to assist with that information. Danny Dr Danny Kingsley ------------------------------------------ Executive Officer Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) Menzies Library, Building 2 The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia E: [log in to unmask] W: http://aoasg.org.au T: @openaccess_oz -----Original Message----- 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 |