From: Maria Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:47:11 +0000

The Center for Research Libraries has published an updated version of
the “Model
Licensing Terms and Specifications for Data Resources
<https://www.crl.edu/electronic-resources/tools-resources>”. The terms were
developed through the pooling of expertise and community input from
librarians involved in financial and geospatial data licensing. CRL
provides these terms for use in negotiating agreements for large global
datasets provided by commercial vendors.



In November 2016, CRL hosted the inaugural eDesiderata Forum on the topic
of licensing large databases and datasets (the event description, related
resources and documentation can be found here
<https://www.crl.edu/events/licensing-big-data-edesiderata-forum>). Guided
by the findings of the 2016 Forum, CRL developed a set of terms and
specifications recommended for inclusion in data acquisition licenses to
facilitate more successful, informative and mutually constructive
agreements with vendors of global data resources.



Last Spring, CRL shared a proposed draft of these terms and invited members
to provide feedback and pose questions, facilitating a virtual discussion
regarding strategies for licensing and providing access to global data
resources. CRL updated the terms based on the feedback received during the
review period. Both the current and previous versions can be found on the
following CRL page:



https://www.crl.edu/electronic-resources/tools-resources



We encourage community input on the terms and specification, comments can
be submitted on the PDF (Google Drive document) using the in-line
commenting function. Comments will inform future revisions of the document.