Re: Perpetual Access in License Agreement

["Tracy L. Thompson" <tracy.thompson@yale.edu>]

Here is some text from our standard license agreement. Hope you 
find it helpful.

> Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Licensor hereby 
> grants to Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual 
> license to use any Licensed Materials that were accessible 
> during the term of this Agreement.  Such use shall be in 
> accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, which 
> provisions shall survive any termination of this Agreement. 
> The means by which Licensee shall have access to such Licensed 
> Materials shall be in a manner and form substantially equivalent 
> to the means by which access is provided under this Agreement.
Cheers,
Tracy L. Thompson, Executive Director
New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
www.nellco.org
tracy.thompson@yale.edu

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At 07:09 PM 6/6/2006, you wrote:
> I am looking for a paragraph about "perpetual access clause" that
> may be available in online databases license agreements.
>
> I couldn't find an explicit text stating for example: Upon 
> termination of this agreement, perpetual access will be provided 
> online to the material published during the subscription period, 
> including but not limited to tables of contents, abstracts, and 
> full texts of articles (if applicable).
>
> I found some texts related to providing material in CD/DVD
> format; some vendors offer non searchable files, etc. nothing
> about online access.
>
> Your input is highly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards
>
> ************************
>
> Houeida K. Charara
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Beirut Library
> Lebanese American University