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The OU Library, Project Edbank - part of the eLib programme and
the OU Rights Department in association with SCONUL


NEGOTIATING ELECTRONIC COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS:
 exploring the issues and considering the alternatives

The Open University is offering a one-day workshop on Tuesday January
20th 1998
At Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Price: stlg 80.00 to include lunch and refreshments

The objectives for this day are to: 
* identify the issues for institutions seeking to create electronic
resources in the context of the
   legislative environment and organisational needs
* examine alternative approaches with case studies from other
industries/sectors
* highlight the importance of developing an institutional process for
licence negotiation, administration
   and review
* foster an understanding of copyright as a working tool involving
commercial transactions
* engage participants in a review of licence terms and conditions

Intended audience:
* policy makers at institutions reviewing the implications of the
electronic library
* librarians and other institutional staff engaged in the process of
negotiating copyright permissions for 
   electronic resources

Numbers will be limited

BACKGROUND TO THE DAY

The advent of the electronic library and an increasing demand for
services delivered to the "desktop" has been accompanied by a need to
approach publishers and other rights owners for permission to create
electronic resources. This applies equally to journal contents pages
(for current awareness), whole journal articles, images, illustrative
materials, books and book chapters, newspaper articles and out of print
materials.

Publishers are trying to meet these new demands from libraries while
maintaining the financial viability of their activities for the future.

The model licence between UK Universities and Publishers recently
proposed by a JISC/PA Working Party is an attempt to improve mutual
understanding of copyright issues and produce workable solutions to
satisfy both publishers and university requirements.

Bide, Oppenheim and Ramsden have reported on copyright clearance and
digitisation in UK Higher Education for a JISC/PA Working Party on
Clearance Mechanisms. They concluded that the issue of pricing for
digital use "can only benefit from further open discussions.... and that
mutually acceptable models of pricing should not be beyond us."

Even more recently, the Dutch scientific librarians together with a
large number of German university libraries have decided to take a joint
stand in their negotiations with publishers. 

PROGRAMME

10.00 - 10.15 Coffee and registration

10.15 - 10.30 Welcome and introduction
	Charles Oppenheim, International Institute for Electronic
Library Research 

10.30 - 11.00 Considerations in rights licensing 
	Richard McCracken, OU Rights Department

11.00 - 11.30  Licensing Principles Adopted by Dutch and German
Libraries
	Hans Geleijnse, Librarian, Tilburg University

11.30 - 11.45 Discussion

11.45 - 12.45 Workshop 1: Terms for the licence

12.45 - 1.30 Lunch

1.30 - 2.00 Report back from rapporteurs

2.00 - 3.00 Alternative Licensing Models
	Gavin Robertson, New Technologies Schemes Manager, MCPS
	Kevin Stewart, Senior Contracts Manager, Hodder Headline (to be
confirmed)

3.00 - 3.15 Discussion

3.15 - 3.30 Tea

3.30 - 4.15 Workshop 2: Negotiation/Terms for the licence contd

4.15 - 4.30 Round up and conclusions

4.30 Workshop close



REGISTRATION
Including lunch and all refreshments
Stlg 80.00

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please contact:
Mary Hunt
Jennie Lee Library
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

Tel: 01908 652672
Fax: 01908 653571
Email: [log in to unmask]

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Negotiating Electronic Copyright Permissions
Milton Keynes, Tuesday January 20th 1998

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Fee: Stlg 80.00
An invoice and map will be sent with confirmation of booking

DELEGATE NUMBERS WILL BE LIMITED TO 40. 
EARLY BOOKING IS ADVISABLE

Cancellations made over 3 working days before the course will be subject
to an administrative fee of #15.00. Cancellations in the last 3 working
days will be subject to the full fee. Substitution of delegates is
acceptable.



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