LIBLICENSE

A Project Sponsored by the
Council on Library and Information Resources/Commission
on Preservation & Access
and Housed at Yale University Library

Objectives of LIBLICENSE:

• Inform and educate a wide community of librarians, educators, information providers
• Build a shared understanding of values in the library community
• Convey that understanding to electronic information providers
• Understand the role and needs of electronic information providers
• Move to standard language wherever possible

LIBLICENSE Project assumptions:

• Licenses will be the mode of transactions for electronic content
• The one-on-one negotiating mode of today cannot easily scale up

PHASE I:

• Create LIBLICENSE web site:
  
  http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/

  A work in progress: contains terms clauses, discussion, recommendations, links to licensing sites, bibliography.

• Create LIBLICENSE discussion list:
  
  liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

  Over 1500 subscribers including librarians, publishers, lawyers, others

Phase II:

• Create library boilerplate licensing on the fly from a WWW resource

Phase III:

• Depends on funding
• Consortial issues in licensing (an outline has been prepared)
• Issues in licensing out by libraries to other institutions

To contribute, volunteer, critique, etc, contact:
Ann.Okerson@yale.edu

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