A Study of License Terms for Electronic Resources Management
Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009
While the collections of licensed electronic resources keep growing, libraries have to invest substantial time and effort to understand, negotiate and track those license terms. Future electronic resources require that license information be expressed in a structured machine-readable format like XML. In order for a license exchange protocol to be effective in such format, all the parties have to come to an agreement on what terms to be included and how they are to be represented in ERMS. Future ERMS also need to include free fields which will allow individual libraries to customize the fields necessary to their individual library. With the help of survey research and statistical analysis, this paper aims to provide an overview of the trends and standards of ERMS, its accompanying specifications and applications. Particular emphasis is put on how to integrate “license terms” in ERMS. This study will also identify the issues of ERMS current practices and promote appropriate standards to support data elements and data interchange.
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