RE: Ejournals and ILL

["Raewyn Adams" <Raewyn.Adams@bopdhb.govt.nz>]

Hi Beth

You will probably get heaps of replies like this - we would also love to
know.

To answer your questions as much as I can:

1. We interpret them pretty much as you have outlined - that it 
forbids electronic transfer and we must print and post the slow 
way. I don't see that it forbids us scanning and emailing from 
the print copy though. Haven't really thought about that part of 
it.

2. Some PDF files are manipulable. It depends on the software 
used to create them and also the software used to read them. 
There are lots of options besides Acrobat. I think that's 
probably what the publishers are scared of.

3. We are too small to try and negotiate anything other than 
standard.

Sorry I can't be more helpful. Also, I realise we have different 
copyright laws here, but overall I think the principles are the 
same. And licence agreements over-ride them anyway I suspect.

Cheers


Raewyn Adams
Librarian
Tauranga Hospital Library
Bay of Plenty District Health Board
Private Bag 12 024 Tauranga 3143 NZ
or 840 Cameron Rd Tauranga South 3112 NZ
Telephone: 0064 7 579 8687
Fax: 0064 7 571 6043
mailto:Raewyn.Adams@bopdhb.govt.nz
Library TAUM


-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Beth Jacoby
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 12:48 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Ejournals and ILL

I'd like to hear how other libraries are handling interlibrary 
loan transactions for online journal articles when the license 
agreement forbids electronic transmission of the article.  We 
recently signed two separate license agreements which, according 
to my interpretation, do not allow us to fulfill ILL requests 
unless we print out the article and send it via snail mail.

Wording of the license from the first publisher: "The Subscriber 
may print and deliver Excerpts to fulfill requests as part of the 
practice commonly known as 'interlibrary loan' from 
non-commercial libraries located within the same country as the 
Subscriber."

Wording of the license from the second publisher: "The 
subscribing Institution's library facilities are permitted to use 
printouts from the electronic versions of the Journals, but not 
manipulable electronic files, for the purpose of inter-library 
loan, subject to the limitations of Section 108 of the Copyright 
Act of 1976 and the CONTU Guidelines related thereto."

If we get an ILL request for an article we have only in print, 
our current practice is to scan the article and send it to the 
requesting library as a PDF document.  As I interpret these 
licenses, we may neither send the article from the e-version nor 
scan the print and send it as a PDF for ILL purposes.

1.	How do you interpret these clauses?
2.	Would you consider a PDF file as "manipulable"?
3.	Have you had any success in negotiating more liberal ILL
clauses?

Beth Jacoby
Collection Development Librarian
Schmidt Library
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA  17405-7199
Email: bjacoby@ycp.edu