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To each his own: how to provide a library user with an article respecting licence agreements

Silvana Mangiaracina (Biblioteca Area della Ricerca di Bologna, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy)
Ornella Russo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy)
Alessandro Tugnoli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy)

Interlending & Document Supply

ISSN: 0264-1615

Article publication date: 16 November 2015

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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

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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