RE: Institutional subscription question

["Aline Soules" <aline.soules@csueastbay.edu>]

My understanding is that it is not legal, other than to fill in a 
missing issue or something of the sort.  The institutional 
subscription price = needs to be paid.

Aline Soules
Cal State East Bay
aline.soules@csueastbay.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of B.G. Sloan
Sent: Tue 5/13/2008 4:55 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Institutional subscription question

A question came up on another list:

"Rather than have us cancel subscriptions because we can't afford
them, we have faculty who wish to donate their personal copies.
However, a question has arisen here regarding whether or not this
would be legal."

Just wondering what people think about the idea of a library 
circumventing the institutional subscription cost of a journal by 
accepting donated copies of the journal from a faculty member 
with a personal subscription?

I'm interested in hearing what people think from a 
legal/contractual perspective.

Thanks!

Bernie Sloan