From: "Dr. Klaus Junkes-Kirchen" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:48:21 +0200 Dear colleagues I need some advice in regard of negotiating license terms with a provider from the USA. Several weeks ago we wanted to subscribe a journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists SEG. We had a running subscription combined print and online and wanted to continue e-only. Promptly we received an Institutional User License to sign. Unfortunately it contained a clause concerning governing law, in this case that of the State of Oklahoma. As I am obliged to decline to accept governing law terms others than that of Germany or either stay silent about this, I deleted this clause and send the paper back with the proposition to accept with this deletion. I never received an answer up to now, no denial of my proposal, nothing. As we obtain this subscription via EBSCO I requested EBSCO to help. They even called via fon to the person in charge within SEG, but without success. Well, as this behavior is unusual and unexpected on my side, I am puzzling how to proceed… At the moment we have no access, but there seems to be no demand from faculty, as I still have heard no complaints. So maybe we can save the money and let it be ;-) What I am wondering about is, that all the efforts of creating standard terms for licensing from LIBLICENSE and SERU there are still so many publishers and providers holding in place their own licensing terms and stubbornly complicating negotiation. How easy life could be for e-resources librarians if there would be a code of practice between publishers and libraries to avoid redundant concerns with license language. Well, I do not expect the solution to make me happy but maybe there are some words of comfort from you. Best regards from Germany Klaus ***************************** Dr. Klaus Junkes-Kirchen Head of Acquisitions and Licensing University Library Frankfurt Bockenheimer Landstr. 134-138 60325 Frankfurt am Main Tel. +49 (0)69 798 39272 www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de