Hi,
As you all know, lis-e-journals is a JISCmail discussion list promoted by
the UKSG for librarians, publishers, agents, intermediaries and all parties
involved with electronic journals to discuss matters relating to e-journals
provision, including administration and management, licensing, access, usage
statistics, consortia deals, etc.
As list owner, I welcome participation by all members. This is after all
what the list is all about. However there is a very fine dividing line
between publicising items of potential interest to members i.e. new
services, service enhancements/changes etc. and using lis-e-journals to
promote your organization. Use of the list for this purpose runs counter to
the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy, details of which can be found at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/policy/index.htm
In particular, I would like to draw your attention to Section 4 of this
policy: Posting Promotional Messages
The need for clearer guidelines on what can and cannot be posted to
lis-e-journals was one of the issues highlighted by attendees at a series of
workshops that myself and Graham Stone ran at the last UKSG conference. We
are currently looking into this and many of the other issues raised at the
workshops and hope to provide more guidance in future.
In the meantime, if anyone is unsure about the suitability of a message they
would like to post to lis-e-journals, then please feel free to contact me
first - preferably by emailing me a copy of the intended message. Often a
small amount of editing of the original message together with a link to e.g.
the press release would have sufficed.
Cheers
Lesley
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Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant,
Learning and Information Services,
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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