RE: Posting vendors' PDFs

["Michael Spinella" <Michael.Spinella@jstor.org>]

Dear lib-license participants,

I have followed this thread with interest, and thought it might 
be helpful to add just a few words from JSTOR's perspective. Our 
goal is to ensure the sustainability of the JSTOR archive while 
pursuing broad access and use of the scholarly material we have 
digitized.  This increasingly takes many forms -- direct use of 
the material at www.jstor.org, re-use of material by scholarly 
societies to produce readers or subject-specific websites, use of 
digitized text by scholars, and posting articles written by 
faculty in institutional repositories are all good examples.

In the past year, we have supported a number of requests from 
publishers to provide copies of limited numbers of digitized 
articles to institutions in response to permission requests they 
have granted to those schools. Because publishers hold the rights 
to their journals, institutions need to seek permission from them 
or perhaps other rights holders depending on the specific 
request. We are more than happy to consider institutions' 
requests to post materials when rights holders have indicated 
their permission.  Additionally, JSTOR is glad to provide 
institutions directly with metadata and stable URLs to enable 
them to link to materials in the JSTOR archive from their 
repositories.

Should you have further questions about JSTOR's approach, please 
do not hesitate to be in touch with us at support@jstor.org.

Best,

Mike

Michael Spinella
JSTOR
149 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10010

Michael.Spinella@jstor.org


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:23 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Cc: griscom@pobox.upenn.edu
Subject: Posting vendors' PDFs

>From another list ... of possible interest (and response) to 
readers of liblicense-l?  Ann Okerson

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:49:38 -0400
From: Richard Griscom <griscom@pobox.upenn.edu>
To: SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List <SPARC-IR@arl.org>
Subject: [SPARC-IR] Posting vendors' PDFs

The following question came up in a recent meeting of the
repository oversight group at Penn: Do vendors retain proprietary
rights over the PDF files they prepare for full-text databases?
For example, if we receive permission from Publisher Y to mount
Professor X's paper in our repository, may we use a PDF created
by Project Muse or JSTOR in lieu of scanning the article
ourselves?  Do these vendors exercise rights over the use of the
PDFs that they have prepared?

Best,
Richard Griscom

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