Re: university of chicago new license scheme

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I have not looked at the license and so probably should not 
comment but I would very much appreciate the comments of our 
moderator. I claim to have put the first journal list online in 
?1995 and at that time I proposed a "terms and conditions" to Ann 
(whose work then as now I respected). She told me that whatever I 
called the document it was still a license.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth R Lorbeer" <lorbeer@uab.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:07 PM
Subject: RE: university of chicago new license scheme

> I'm all for it! To my knowledge, I have not heard of a 
> publisher suing an academic library over misuse of its 
> electronic resources.  How do publishers keep straight all the 
> subtle differences of their signed licenses?  Best practices, 
> such as the John Cox model for licensing, have been adopted by 
> a majority of publishers that it makes sense to move to a terms 
> and conditions model.
>
> Liz Lorbeer
> Associate Director for Content Management
> Assistant Professor
> Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
> University of Alabama Birmingham
> lorbeer@uab.edu