From: James Simon <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: December 4, 2014 at 2:39:01 PM EST For the past year, a major upgrade to the LIBLICENSE Model License Agreement (“LMLA”) has been underway, led by a development team of licensing experts and spearheaded by CRL’s Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Ann Okerson. The full announcement is here: <http://liblicense.crl.edu/about-liblicense/contact-us/> The newly revised model license is located at: <http://liblicense.crl.edu/licensing-information/model-license/> Version 5.0 of the LMLA offers up-to-date language reflecting changes in licensing issues faced by higher education. Among the new provisions are clauses for text and data mining; rights surrounding the use of authors’ own work; options for open access; and language governing third-party archiving services. The new model license agreement provides both a template that can be used by librarians in negotiating particular licensing agreements and, more generally, serves as a statement by the academic library community of what it considers acceptable policy and practice for licensing digital information. The LMLA was supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under the auspices of CRL, in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the California Digital Library (CDL), the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and the NELLCO Law Library Consortium. For more information and comments, please contact: Ann Okerson [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] James Simon Vice President of Collections & Services Center for Research Libraries