On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Tony Barry <tonyb_at_netinfo.com.au> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 05:53:07 -0400
> From: Tony Barry <tonyb_at_netinfo.com.au> <harnad_at_COGSCI.SOTON.AC.UK>
> To: SEPTEMBER-FORUM_at_AMSCI-FORUM.AMSCI.ORG
> Subject: Re: Should Publishers Offer Free-Access Services?
>
> At 9:22 AM 1998/08/28, Vivienne Monty wrote:
>
> >--What is of greater concern in for pay services is that libraries are NOT
> >paying for archival copies, that is, they are paying for current access
> >and when they quit paying annual fees, all access is cut off. At least in
> >the paper world, a library had what they bought and researchers could
> >refer to materials even centuries later.
>
> Actually its worse than that. Access contracts normally preclude providing
> copies to other libraries via the inter-library loan system. The reliance
> that small libraries have placed on the major research libraries as
> suppliers of copies of articles from journals that they could not afford is
> lost.
>
> The fair dealing and inter-library traffic in copies under the copyright
> law is overridden by contract law. Each of you in your respective
> countries should watch proposed changes in copyright law very carefully.
>
> Tony
>
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On all this issue, An Okerson has expressed herself very cogently and
forcefully. I translated her speech in Caen last April. It dealt a lot
with that issue and it shook the French librarians that attended that
meeting.
I have echoed it in my Leiter lecture (see my offer to distribute in an
earlier message).
jc
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