Recently Asked Questions (RAQs)
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| Pushing Back on Problematic Terms in Subscription Contracts Academic libraries need to make the most of their budgets for subscription services. We also want to advance librarian-aligned priorities like fair use, accessibility, authors’ rights, user privacy, and data security. Can you provide guidance on how academic and research libraries can resist contracts with non-disclosure clauses and other conditions that can work against these priorities? |
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| E-resource license language If a signed license says that authorized users for remote access include "current students, faculty, and staff only" or "active faculty, students, and staff only" or even "bona fide current faculty, staff, and students only" can we conclude that terminated faculty would not be legally allowed to have remote access after their termination? (Walk-ins are a separate matter; here we are looking at remote access). Some licenses allow "affiliates" and some even say that it's up to the institution to determine who gets credentials to allow remote access, but we have more than 20 licenses that state in one way or another "current faculty" only. I would take that to mean that former faculty, regardless if the institution allows them to keep their credentials for a year after termination, would NOT be legally allowed to continue to access those resources. Am I right? |
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| Fair Use in Uncertain Times In the spring, it was clear academic libraries providing digital resources were in a state of emergency and fair use restrictions were loosened. |
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| Audiobooks at the library Amazon.com sells audiobooks. One of the formats is an MP3 CD. The image of an example box says the MP3 is transferable. |