To each his own: how to provide a library user with an article respecting licence agreements
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to describe the state of the art of the Italian Archivio Licenze Periodici Elettronici (ALPE) project which aims to improve the understanding of the issues raised by licence agreements of electronic resources in the Inter-Library Loan Service and to support librarians in the implementation of the right policies.
Design/methodology/approach
ALPE – (E-Journals Licenses Archive) is a national archive of interlibrary loan (ILL) clauses, extracted from standard and negotiated licences, to manage, to publicly share and to check the permitted uses of e-resources for ILL and document delivery.
Findings
The ALPE archive facilitates public and free access to a remarkable amount of information and data about ILL conditions granted by the most important commercial and academic publishers, and responds to the practical problems of managing and understanding ILL clauses in e-licences.
Originality/value
The solutions adopted by ALPE effectively solve many of the problems reported in the literature. These should help ILL librarians in dealing with the problems associated with ILL and licensing.
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Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank all the colleagues of the ALPE working group for their active co-operation and support during different steps of this project: Roberta Caporaletti, Alberto Pozzolo, Ninfa Varvaro (CARE-CRUI), Paola Gargiulo, Eleonora Rodi, Silvia Simonetti (CINECA), Paolo Albertazzi, William Faeti, Gustavo Filippucci, Alessandra Massari, Anna Ortigari (Università di Bologna), Elena De Carolis, Elisabetta Tamburini, Ezio Tarantino (Università Roma La Sapienza), Enza Gasbarro (Università Roma 3), Claudia Beretta (Università di Pavia), Sandra Faita, Fabiola Fazi, Elena Franchini, Mara Guazzerotti (Università di Pisa), Caterina Barazia, Franco Bessone, Bianca Gai, Laura Garbolino (Università di Torino), Barbara Patui (Università di Udine).
Citation
Mangiaracina, S., Russo, O. and Tugnoli, A. (2015), "To each his own: how to provide a library user with an article respecting licence agreements", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 43 No. 4, pp. 199-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILDS-07-2015-0022
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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