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Title

Libraries and licensing: the eFuture will require legal as well as technical skills

Author(s)

Wright, Robin

Abstract

In the eFuture, interactions between a library and its clients will increasingly be mediated through the terms of commercial licensing agreements, rather than under exceptions in copyright legislation. Libraries will need to manage a shifting web of licensed access and usage rights, controlled by legal, and often also technical, mechanisms, rather than operating under a single rights regime applying to their whole collection. This may require changes to existing library services, based on copyright law. This paper reviews a small selection of licence agreements for the delivery of online or eBook resources by Australian academic libraries and considers some administrative and policy issues that may arise when libraries move from purchasing collections of hard copy monographs to providing licensed access to electronic media.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Library

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research

Source

Proceedings of 'eM-powering eFutures', the 16th Biennial VALA Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 06-09 February 2012

Publication year

2012

FOR Code(s)

180115 Intellectual Property Law

Keyword(s)

Academic libraries;  Collection management;  Commercial licensing agreements;  Copyright;  Ebooks;  Online resources;  Usage rights

Publisher

VALA Libraries, Technology and the Future, Inc

Publisher URL

http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/

Copyright

Copyright © 2012 the author.

Peer reviewed