Hello Judy
I would endorse everything in Tricia Rey's reply. An additional problem
arises from the distribution of etocs - if six people request the same
article (not an unusual occurrence, especially from the better-known
journals, or on a hot topic), we can apparently only satisfy the first
request, leaving some users disgruntled & possibly short of essential
information.
I am thinking about electronic signatures on copyright declarations, but
that's another minefield!
Regards,
Maureen Duffy
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From: Discussion list for Health Libraries Group HLG members
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Judy Atkinson
Sent: 08 August 2006 11:32
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Subject: NHS England Copyright licence - feedback required
Dear colleagues
I am aware of concern within the health library community about the non-
renewal of the CLA licence for NHS England. Guidance for librarians has been
provided at http://www.library.nhs.uk/forlibrarians/copyright. The lack of
an NHS licence across England is likely to create more administration and
uncertainty for all NHS staff. I would imagine that the areas of impact are
likely to be in preventing:
o Copying of multiple copies of copyright materials for continuing
professional development sessions, journal clubs etc.
o Copying of multiple copies of copyright materials for corporate
meetings etc
If significant numbers of NHS organisations within England do decide to take
out licences it could even cost NHS England more. As the Health libraries
representative on LACA
(http://www.cilip.org.uk/professionalguidance/copyright) I would be
interested in knowing whether you are experiencing problems as a result of
this difficult decision in balancing the NHS'allocation of resources. I will
then feed back to LACA and summarise for this list, anonymising replies.
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