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Information Access Alliance is a coalition of six leading library organizations in the US and represents the interests of these institutions as mergers among scholarly and legal publishers occur. The Web site contains information on the impact of publisher mergers on the market for STM journals and provides a link to a recently released white paper "Publisher Mergers: A Consumer-Based Approach to Antitrust Analysis."
Guide to libraries on negotiating license agreements for access to electronic resources. Identifies issues of libraries and user communities for consideration by licensors. New cost models and legal agreements are required to address issues in acquiring and making available to the user community electronic products. This document provides background of legal issues, fifteen principles of licensing, terms to be defined in the legal document, and bibliographies on licensing and other related sources.
The work of the task group - to define a business model that can support the procurement of electronic journals and other electronic resources across a consortia of federal libraries - is discussed. Issues and concerns have been collected. A major issue is the publishers' definition of a site as being geographically centralized. Pricing, year-to-year government funding, and government contracting are also challenges.
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