RE: Interlibrary loan restrictions in license agreements

["Croft, Janet B." <jbcroft@ou.edu>]

I've seen that before.  I don't know if they interpret it so 
narrowly that a library at a for-profit IHE (DeVry or something 
similar) would be out of luck, or if they are only talking about 
corporate libraries. And I can't see any really good reason for 
limiting to the US. I'd suggest asking for a definition of terms 
and negotiating.  They may not understand the limits they are 
placing!

Janet Brennan Croft
Head of Access Services
University of Oklahoma Libraries
Norman OK 73019
jbcroft@ou.edu

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From: "Joanna Mitchell" <jmitchel@nmu.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Subject: Interlibrary loan restrictions in license agreements
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:33:15 EST

Commonly now licenses seem to require that interlibrary lending 
be handled by first printing and then delivering an article by 
fax, Ariel, snail mail, etc.

I'm looking at a license agreement which enables lending in this 
way but limits lending to:

              Non-commercial libraries

              Located in the U.S.

Would you agree that this is unduly restrictive?  Have you also
encountered such limits on the borrowing institutions?

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