There are a lot of libraries that are negotiating ILL rights in
licenses. At UVa, our contract negotiator(s) have required that our Fair
Use and ILL rights be retained in all our licenses. For most of our
electronic materials, we are allowed to lend articles by printing them
first, then delivering them. (Therefore, we cannot simply save the .pdf
file of an article and send it to the other library.)
However, the libraries of the VIVA consortium are currently, in
cooperation with one publisher, doing a pilot test that allows direct
lending of article files. This test has just started, so we don't have
any data yet.
There is plenty of literature on how to do this. You might want to refer
to the ARL Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources:
http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/principles.html
Here's a summary of a recent conference on licensing of electronic
resources:
http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/sum.html
and a very interesting site sponsored by Yale called LibLicense:
Licensing Digital Information; a Resource for Librarians:
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml
Here are some models of standard licenses for librarians:
http://www.licensingmodels.com
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Jean L. Cooper, Acting Director, Interlibrary Services
University of Virginia Library * Charlottesville, VA 22903
voice: 434-982-2743 * email: jcooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx