Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:43:45 +0000

This is also the position taken by the Michigan State University Libraries. The university expects that retired faculty will continue to participate in active scholarship, and they continue to have access to a variety of supporting services, including remote access to licensed content. I have asked around in the past among some of our peers, and they hold the same position.

Steven Sowards
Associate Director for Collections
Michigan State University Libraries
366 W. Circle Drive
East Lansing MI 48824


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From: "Kearney, Richard" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:04:24 +0000

This question might be worth a few "me too"s, given the increasing complexity of some licenses. Our perspective is that Emeritus Faculty are "Faculty" (i.e., authorized users) for the purpose of access to licensed resources. Most of them are active scholars who retain their affiliation with our institution, including faculty email accounts and other University/Library privileges. And this is a small population anyway.


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Richard Kearney
Electronic Resources Librarian
David and Lorraine Cheng Library
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ 07470
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From: WMC <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 03:28:31 -0500

Dear Steve,

This doesn't answer your excellent question below directly, but I work with several Emeritus Faculty who definitely have access to their library's respective licensed electronic resources.

You are correct of course in noting they retain an ".edu" faculty email account.

 Bill

Bill Cohen, Publisher
Harrington Park Press