Re: Dow Jones Interactive Enterprise Master Agreement

[Caroline Regan <C.Regan@library.usyd.edu.au>]

Oops Steve, I was looking at last years contract! We do have that same
clause. I've just spoken to Yvonne at Factiva and she has suggested
putting my concerns in an email and they will pass it through their legal
and then write us a letter confirming that we can disregard clauses 6c and
6d.

Thanks for pointing this out to me. Now I'll point it out to our
contract/licence people!

Cheers,

Caroline Regan
Co-ordinator, Networked Information Resources
University of Sydney Library
NSW 2006
Australia
Tel. 612 9351 3416
Fax. 612 9351 7290
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At 01:05 AM 5/6/00 -0400, you wrote:

The Australian Factiva office has offered us the DJI 'Enterprise
Agreement' as the license agreement for access to Dow Jones Interactive.
They say they do not have an academic equivalent for us to use. This poses
a couple of problems for us, and I am wondering if any American customers
have been offered the same agreement, and have had anybetter luck than us
in persuading Factiva to amend the license. Right now, we seem to have
reached the end of the line with them, even though we have been back and
forwards to Factiva in the US and UK.

[snip]

I would be interested to know if this is the same agreement that N
American customers are asked to sign [esp new customers] and if so,
whether you have had any more luck than we in getting Factiva to amend
their terms.

Many thanks in anticipation

Steve Cramond 
Acting Research Services Librarian
University of Adelaide Library