This looks like good news. Apologies if evereyone on lis-elib has already
seen it! Fytton Rowland.
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>>> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:12:00 -0500
>>> From: Dorothy Solbrig <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Dutch/German library joint licencing principles and
>>> guidelines for negotiations with publishers
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> The Dutch scientific libraries together with a large number of German
>>> university libraries have decided to take a joint stand in the
>>> negotiations with publishers.
>>>
>>> The libraries have determined premises for entering into electronic
>>> licencing agreements and they will be forming consortia to that end.
>>> Against the monopolization of the publishing world, which has recently
>>> reached a new high with the merger of Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer,
>>> the libraries are setting a far-reaching, supranational form of
>>> cooperation.
>>>
>>> The UKB Consortium of the Dutch university libraries, the library of the
>>> Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Royal Library, and university
>>> libraries in a large number of German Federal States aim to advance
>>> access to electronic information. This can have a stimulating effect on
>>> international communication between scientists and students. The
>>> libraries are convinced that electronic access to scientific journals
>>> may also lead to cost-effectiveness for the publishers.
>>>
>>> The libraries have developed "Licencing Principles" (see
>>> cwis.kub.nl/~dbi/cwis/licprinc.htm) that will be used from now on as
>>> guidelines in their negotiations with publishers.
>>>
>>> Some elements of these guidelines are:
>>>
>>> - the possibility to provide access to electronic information to students
>>> and scientists independent of their whereabouts;
>>> - libraries will make fair use of electronic information and do not wish,
>>> along with copyright holders, that this information should seep away
>>> through the Internet. To unauthorized persons access will be denied;
>>> - stipulations by publishers, preventing libraries from cancelling
>>> subscriptions in order to be able to obtain electronic journals on fair
>>> conditions, are rejected;
>>> - a subscription to the printed journal should also lead, after a short
>>> transition period, to free access to the electronic version beside;
>>> - an electronic journal should be made available much cheaper than the
>>> printed journal, if a library wants to subscribe exclusively to the
>>> electronic version.
>>>
>>> The Dutch libraries invite libraries in other countries, in particular in
>>> Germany and the United Kingdom, to follow this initiative as the issues
>>> have an international character and the publishers also are operating on
>>> an international level.
>>>
>>> October, 28th, 1997
>>>
>>> Note for the press:
>>>
>>> More information can be given by:
>>>
>>> J.D. Gilbert MA bibliothecaris Universiteit van Maastricht;
>>> tel.: 043 - 388 3404
>>> Mr J.P.J. Geleijnse bibliothecaris KU Brabant;
>>> tel.: 013 - 466 2121
>>> Dr A.C. Klugkist bibliothecaris RU Groningen;
>>> tel.: 050 - 3635005
>>>
>>>
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Fytton Rowland, Lecturer, and Programme Tutor for
Information and Publishing Studies,
Department of Information and Library Studies,
Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK.
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