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HEADLINE: PRINCIPLES & BEST PRACTICES

BROAD COMMUNITY WIDE PRINCIPLES

NHA Principles: "Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment." National Humanities Alliance, March 24, 1997.

"Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property In the Digital Environment: An Archival Perspective." Society of American Archivists, October 6, 1997.

"Higher Education Policies for the Digital Age." NASULGC, November 1997

 

LIBRARY PRINCIPLES

"Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources." Association of Research Libraries, July 15, 1997

Dutch-German Library Joint Licencing Principles and Guidelines

A coalition of 15 Dutch scientific research libraries, concerned over the anticompetitive implications of the proposed merger of two major scientific journal publishers, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer, has adopted a set of principles aimed at bolstering their position in negotiations with publishers over electronic journals. The principles stipulate that libraries that subscribe to a print version of a journal should not have to pay more than an additional 7.5% for electronic access to that same journal, and that libraries should not pay more than 80% of the print rate to subscribe exclusively to the electronic version. A group of German librarians who helped draw up the principles are expected to sign on as part of the coalition, and it's hoped that many European libraries will follow suit.

INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES

Campus Intellectual Property Policies: a page on the Website of the Association of Research Libraries gathering policies as they become knowm. Currently represented are the following:

University of Alberta, Columbia University, Brigham Young University, University of Chicago, University of Colorado, Cornell Law School, Dalhousie Faculty Association, University of Georgia Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, University of North Carolina Law School, Queen's University, Stanford University, University of Texas, Washington State University