Licensing

UCD: Statement from UCD General Library's Policies Regarding Computers in Libraries: "Electronic resources available through the UC Davis libraries are licensed by the university for non-commercial use by UC faculty, staff, students and on-site users, for educational or research purposes only. Additional restrictions may apply to on-site users of certain databases. The terms and conditions of the UC and UC Davis agreements with the vendors and publishers of these electronic resources regulate the use of these resources. These conditions include, but are not limited to, restrictions on copying, republishing, altering, redistributing and reselling the information contained therein. Fee-for-service providers may not copy and resell texts from licensed sources to non-subscribing individuals, institutions or organizations." Computer Use Policy further clarifies the policy regarding the use of computers in the UCD General Library.
U.C.: Model License Agreement of the California Digital Library: Created by the staff of the California Digital Library, a Co-Library of the campuses of the University of California. (MS Word document)
U.C.: California Digital Library Checklist of Points to Be Addressed in a California Digital Library License Agreement
U.C.: Principles for Acquiring and Licensing Information in Digital Formats: Developed by the UC Libraries Collection Development Committee.
U.S.: Licensing Electronic Resources: "Strategic and practical considerations for signing electronic information delivery agreements" prepared by Patricia Brennan, Karen Hersey and Georgia Harper for ARL, the Association of Research Libraries
U.S.: Licensing Electronic Resources: Developed by the American Library Association and others, these principles provide guidelines for libraries in negotiating license agreements and provide licensors with a sense of the issues of importance to libraries and their user communities in such negotiations.
International: Creative Commons: Creative Commons is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available to others to build upon and share. It offers copyright licenses ranging from full copyright to the public domain from which authors can choose.
International: LIBLICENSE: Repository of the archives of the Liblicense e-mail discussion list as well as a resource guide with definitions of license vocabulary, a selective annotated bibliography of the library licensing literature and sample publisher and author licenses.
International: Licensing Principles: Prepared by the Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
International: Licensingmodels.com: Sponsored and developed in close co-operation with four major subscription agents (EBSCO, Harrassowitz, RoweCom and Swets Blackwell), these model standard licenses are for use by publishers, librarians and subscription agents for electronic resources.
International: Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information: By the International Coalition of Library Consortia, this statement is primarily relevant within the higher education community.

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