Till fjärrlåneintresserade:

Elsevier tar tillbaka möjligheten att göra fjärrlån från elektroniska tidskrifter.

Vi får hoppas att de och andra fulltextleverantörer tillåter det i framtiden med tanke på eventuella fulltextlicenser för delar av biblioteksväsendet. Den moderna tekniken bör ju inte minska tillgängligheten för bibliotek utanför avtalen.

Frans Lettenström
BIBSAM

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>Subject: Elsevier Accepts Modified Agreement
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>On July 2nd, Uta Grothkopf and Ellen Bouton posted a note to libicense-l
>reporting that Elsevier had agreed to modify its New Astronomy license to
>permit ILL from this electronic file "in accordance with current copyright
>law and CONTU guidelines".
>
>They went on to say that they "hoped that other publishers follow the
>positive example Elsevier has given". 
>
>Those of you who know me know that this area of ILL is one I and Elsevier
>take very seriously.  It is with some regret, therefore, that I have to
>say that, while it is true that a modified ESO Library license for New
>Astronomy was signed with the wording shown, it was inadvertently signed
>by a publishing staff member and it never passed through our Legal
>Department.  In short, we made an error and there has, in fact, been no
>policy change.  We do not permit ILL from our electronic files. 
>
>Let me use this occasion to expand a bit on our position.  The CONTU
>guidelines were explicitly written for photocopying.  That is the context
>in which they were negotiated between publishers and librarians and that
>is the only context in which they should continue to be applied. 
>
>CONTU was at a time when there were few if any reliable commercial
>document delivery services available as an alternative to ILL.  You needed
>to get a copy from another library because that was effectively the only
>option. 
>
>Now, with commercial services, the only reason a library seeks a
>photocopied Elsevier article via ILL is that it does not want to
>compensate Elsevier for that article.  It is not because the article is in
>any other way hard to obtain. 
>
>Somehow CONTU has taken on a broader aura.  Many see it as some blanket
>entitlement to five free copies of anything.  It is not.  It is a
>negotiated agreement pertaining to photo- copies and photocopies only. 
>
>As others have said on this list recently, the digital environ- ment is
>quite different.  During the recent CONFU discussions (for those not
>knowing this acronym, it is the Conference on Fair Use), I tried to
>introduce new options to consider for new ILL guidelines.  It was judged
>to be too early - or too dangerous - to get into substantive discussions,
>which I still think is a pity. 
>
>What I suggested as options could be, e.g., (1) that the licensee of
>electronic files agree to some limit on the number of ILL copies supplied
>or (2) that current material (e.g.  perhaps this year and the preceding
>1-2 years' publications)  not be available for ILL copying.  Either of
>these measures might give the rights owners the protections they need and
>provide more balance. 
>
>As to (1), the CONTU guidelines put all responsibility for counting on the
>borrowing library.  That means the supplying library - the licensee of the
>electronic files and the only one with whom the rights holder has a
>contractual agreement - can wash its hands and say "not my problem",
>effectively supplying everyone who wants copies with no questions asked. 
>Most publishers are not willing to license under those conditions. 
>
>As to (2), this would probably be harder to get accepted on both sides. 
>Some publishers would feel a 2-3 year period for ILL electronic exemption
>is too small.  Many libraries would consider it unacceptable for the
>opposite reason.  But it might be worth discussing. 
>
>Yet another alternative is to use the electronic files for ILL but with an
>agreed-upon payment to the rights holder.  There are some interesting
>discussions along these lines going on in Europe. 
>
>I hope to be returning to this topic in a couple of months and propose
>some type of meeting or other method to move the discussion forward (at
>least for Elsevier licenses).  In the meantime, and as to this case, we
>made a mistake in signing the ESO modified license and have not changed
>our policy. 
>
>Karen Hunter
>Senior Vice President 
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