Re: digital-copyright Digest 25 Sep 2004 15:00:00 -0000 Issue 424

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It won't be negotiable for long.  Interlibrary loans of digital materials
(not hardcopy) raise the specter of a publisher only being able to sell a
single copy of a publication, with other copies being disseminated free of
charge.  I don't know of any institutions that would be willing to shoulder
the cost (500x?  2,000x?) of providing a subscription for the the entire
library community.  Widespread interlibrary loan will simply mean that many
things simply won't get published.

Joe Esposito

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> Re: Interlibrary loans from other institutions' electronic databases?
> 912 by: Barbara Fister
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> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:15:01 -0500
> To: "Blobaum, Paul" <p-blobaum@xxxxxxxxx>,
>   <digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Barbara Fister <fister@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Interlibrary loans from other institutions' electronic
>   databases?
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> At 08:54 AM 9-24-2004 -0500, Blobaum, Paul wrote:
> >John,
> >
> >I don't know of one single library who provides Interlibrary Loan
articles
> >from their full text aggregated database subscriptions. <snip>
>
> I do. As Edward Barrow pointed out, this is negotiable. A large STM
digital
> bundle contract negotiated in my state included provision for fair use of
> those materials because the land grant institution who was acquiring it
> (using tax dollars) has the guts to insist on retaining its role as the
> state's research collection.
>
> Personally, I'm following NIH's leadership on open access with great
> interest and hoping we are at a true watershed moment for renegotiating
> access to tax-supported research. If that part of the political economy of
> information is made more rational, it could have a beneficial effect
> throughout the industries. For example, if my book budget weren't
> continually eroded by my serials price increases, I could buy more books
> and that might mean fewer university presses closed their doors.
>
> Barbara Fister