Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:49:20 +0000

I agree with Winston that publishers are making it a matter of their definition of who can have access and at what price. This also spills over to graduating students (besides retired or emeritus faculty) wishing for access for a year or more after they graduate.

As a result I have seen licensing language from publishers specifically excluding these categories, while at the same time I have had questions from member libraries asking to clarify access for these groups in a publishers license.

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Mary I. Wilke
Member Liaison & Outreach Services Director
Center for Research Libraries



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From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:04:40 +0000

I think the question now is not so much how libraries/universities handle emeritus faculty, but how certain publishers (like most recently AAAS) are insisting on charging an additional levy for "retired" faculty, whether technically "emeritus" or just plan "retired."

Winston Tabb
The Johns Hopkins University


On 12/23/15 10:48 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
From: Steve Oberg <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:45:33 +0000

I have a practical question for members of this discussion list. For those of you who are in an academic institution, do you provide emeritus faculty with online access to licensed content? Do you differentiate between those who are retired vs. those who are awarded the emeritus title? (My understanding is that in my institution, at least, the granting of emeritus status is not automatic upon
retirement.) Let’s assume also that emeritus faculty already have full network access, an institutional email account, etc.

Another question I have about this issue is, how does this fit with your existing license agreements? I’ve looked through ours and have yet to find one that specifically mentions emeritus faculty as authorized users. I don’t interpret that to mean they aren’t authorized, necessarily — just that this status isn’t specifically mentioned, at least as far as I can see.

Steve

Steve Oberg
Assistant Professor of Library Science
Electronic Resources and Serials
Wheaton College (IL)

NASIG Executive Board Member-At-Large