Newsletter on Serial Pricing Issues 072 (February 14, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/nspi/nspi-ns072 ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 72 -- February 14, 1993 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 72.1 FROM THE EDITOR, Marcia Tuttle 72.2 _CURRENT DIGEST OF THE SOVIET PRESS_ COPYRIGHT STATEMENT, Bill Miller 72.3 COMMENT ON THE _CURRENT DIGEST..._ COPYRIGHT STATEMENT, Newslet- ter Editorial Board 72.4 UNITED KINGDOM SERIALS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Peter Walsh 72.1 FROM THE EDITOR Marcia Tuttle, tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu. It is the newsletter's policy not to accept anonymous submissions, and we print them only rarely. I have received a message from a subscriber who wants to remain anonymous, and my editorial board agrees that the message should be in the newsletter. We welcome discussion of this topic. The mes- sage: "We received a letter today from Dixon Brooke about "some exciting events quisition of Majors and their partnership with the British Library. It is the subtle reference to Majors clients which I want to address. "As a long time Majors client I was shocked to learn that they had sold their subscription division to EBSCO. This letter seems to suggest that Majors and EBSCO have decided that their clients will be better served by EBSCO and seems to assume that Majors clients will automatically roll their subscriptions over to EBSCO. In conversations with Majors and EBSCO repre- sentatives they have been very clear that they will do everything possible to make this transition as simple as possible. While I am sure that EBSCO wants our account I have advised them that they should not assume ANYTHING. If we had wanted EBSCO to be our subscription agent we would have been using them for many years. We have not selected an alternative to Majors. We will evaluate all subscription agents and decide which one, in our opin- ion, provides us with the best services. Naturally, EBSCO will be consid- ered, but they have not bought our account by buying Majors." ----- It has been reported to me that publishers would appreciate the same privi- lege we have just given a librarian -- a means of responding to newsletter items without revealing their professional affiliation (and often a person- al name would do that). We invite any publishers who wish to remain anony- mous to newsletter readers to channel their remarks through either of the publisher members of the editorial board, Jerry Curtis (paper mail only) and Janet Fisher. They will pass the messages on to the editor without revealing the correspondent. However, we do ask that you let Jerry or Janet know who you are. 72.2 _CURRENT DIGEST OF THE SOVIET PRESS_ COPYRIGHT STATEMENT Submitted by William Miller, Florida Atlantic University, MILLER@ACC.FAU.EDU. THE CURRENT DIGEST OF THE SOVIET PRESS 3857 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43214 Copyright Permissions Center Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 We are aware that copyrighted material from our publications, principally our weekly journal THE CURRENT DIGEST OF THE POST-SOVIET PRESS, is fre- quently copied for course packs, library reserve, and other purposes. We expect royalty payments for all copies of our materials, not just those over some minumum number. We wish to make this permission and payment pro- cess as simple as possible. Therefore we propose to establish an ongoing agreement with each university which enables its departments, libraries, and copy centers to make copies of our materials on demand, and then pay the pre-designated royalty after the copies have been made. Our rates are as follows: For copies of our materials in course packs, $.04 per page of our material per copy made. For copies of our materials to place on library reserve, $1.00 per page of our material for up to 5 copies. For 6-10 copies, $2.00 per page of our material. Use of our material in a published work, $.04 per word with a minimum of $25. Please note that this does NOT imply permission to copy whole issues of THE CURRENT DIGEST OF THE POST-SOVIET PRESS, most definitely not on a routine basis, even upon payment of a royalty fee. If faculty or students frequent- ly want entire issues or substantial parts thereof, please advise them that they should enter their own personal subscriptions which are available at a very low rate if the university already subscribes. To establish such an ongoing agreement with us, please sign and return the enclosed form. Very Truly Yours, {signature} Saundra Goodrich Business Manager ------ Accompanying this letter is a form, which appears as follows: To: The Current Digest of the Soviet Press Copyright Permissions 3957 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43214 We hereby agree to report all copies made of your copyrighted materials and remit the designated royalty payment within 60 days after the copies are made. We will pay at the following rates: For copies of CDSP materials in course packs, $.04 per page of CDSP materi- al per copy made. For copies of CDSP materials to place on library reserve, $1.00 per page of CDSP material for up to 5 copies. For 6-10 copies, $2.00 per page of CDSP material. Use of CDSP material in a published work, $.04 per word with a minimum of $25.00. We agree that copies of all or substantial amounts of issues of THE CURRENT DIGEST OF THE POST-SOVIET PRESS shall not be made by or for individuals, especially not on a regular basis, even with payment of the royalty fee. Agreement accepted by: ______________________(date):__________ (printed or typed name):___________________________________ (title):___________________________________________________ Correct name and address of the copyright permissions office at this uni- versity: _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - [From Bill Miller:] This item was forwarded to me by the University Attorney's office, with a request for my opinion. My opinion is that CDSP apparently has not heard of the fair-use provisions of the copyright law, and that it would be a night- mare of huge proportions if every publisher begins to attempt to collect royalties in this way and gains any sort of legitimacy for the attempt. Faculty members might particularly be interested in the condition that requires them to pay 4 cents for each word that they quote in a book or article, with a $25 minimum. As for the course packs, at least at this university we would not have any idea what faculty are doing with these but presumably they are doing them at a copy center which already pays royal- ties. We do not place any CDSP material on reserve here. 72.3 COMMENT ON THE _CURRENT DIGEST_ COPYRIGHT STATEMENT Newsletter Editorial Board >From Danny Jones, JONES@uthscsa.edu: As I read the statement, CURRENT DIGEST.... is offering a license to repro- duce their material. I've never seen such an offer in the health sciences and doubt I will. (Perhaps the attorney at FAU did not read it as a lic- ense, but that's how I see it.) I think the publishers are a bit naive about copyright vs licensing of their publication. It is not clear that continuation of the subscription is contingent upon signing the agreement, is that the case? As for how I might respond to such a request, I might ignore it but if a response were necessary I would state that we are unable to sign because the library's public photocopiers are unsupervised and we would not be able to enforce the provisions of their agreement. In the case of their publication being quoted we would have absolutely no control over this and could not be held financially responsible for such activity. ----- >From Janet Fisher, FISHER@mitvma.mit.edu: I think it's fine to run this in the Newsletter. I had seen it on the CNI- copyright list and read the discussion there. It seems like an indefensible position and not possible to enforce. (See, even publishers might agree!) ----- >From Deana Astle, DLAST@CLEMSON.CLEMSON.EDU: I do think we ought to have this information in the newsletter. In fact I ran into a friend of mine on the last day of ALA Midwinter who was showing this letter to Faxon. It is interesting here that they do not acknowledge "fair use" to be operative at all, and are claiming royalites for EVERY copy made. It sounds like someone has indeed embraced the AAUP statement and adopted it as policy. This, unfortunately, may be a trend, and I think we need to call it to people's attention. 72.4 UNITED KINGDOM SERIALS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE Peter Walsh, King's College London, UDYL018@HAZEL.CC.KCL.AC.UK. [from SERIALST] 16th Annual Conference, 22-25 March 1993 University of Southampton Following the success of its 1992 Conference at Heriot-Watt University (420 delegates and 40 exhibitors), UKSG is pleased to announce its 1993 Confer- ence to be held at the University of Southampton. The conference will offer the usual extensive programme of papers, work- shops and visits, focussing on important aspects of the national and inter- national serials industry. Sessions will be devoted to: Current Awareness and Document Supply (David Brown, DJB Associates; Christine Baldwin, Pergamon Press; Sheila Walters, Arizona State University) The Technological Future (Bill Tuck, Consultant; David Worlock, European Information Indus- tries Assoc.) Electronic Information (Derek Law, King's College London; Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University) Serials: the Financial Perspective (Malcolm Stevenson, Bradford University; Liz Sharp, Aberdeen Trust Ltd) Struggling against the Odds; acquisitions problems of Central Europe and post-war Kuwait (Kirsten Gutke, Collets/Gutke-Verlag; Andrew McDonald, Newcastle University) A full programme of repeated workshops on a wide range of practical and topical issues is on offer. These include pricing, user surveys and evalu- ating suppliers (three sessions at an introductory level); downloading and personal bibliographic software; trade/library relationships; guidelines for serial publications; effective presentation skills; network access to serials information; copyright. The Conference will be held at the University's well-appointed Boldrewood Conference Centre, and will include a civic reception at Southampton Guild- hall and a choice of visits, including: * Ordnance Survey and its Library * IBM UK Laboratories and Library * Winchester Cathedral and its Library * Walking tour of historic Southampton * Cruise from Ocean Village around Southampton Water * Naval Heritage at Portsmouth, HMS Victory and Warrior * New Forest Museum and tour * University of Southampton Library A major feature of the event will be its extensive exhibition, an unparal- leled opportunity to meet serials publishers, suppliers, information brok- ers and binders. The Conference will also feature for the first time a product review session designed to allow leading companies to cover recent commercial developments. Full residential delegate fee: #165 sterling + VAT (#185 for non-UKSG members) Non-residential day options are also available. For details and bookings, contact: Jill Tolson; UKSG Administrator; 114 Woodstock Road; Witney OX8 6DY; United Kingdom. Tel. 0993 703466; Fax. 0993 778879. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Statements of fact and opinion appearing in the _Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues_ are made on the responsibility of the authors alone, and do not imply the endorsement of the editor, the editorial board, or the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Readers of the NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES are encouraged to share the information in the newsletter by electronic or paper methods. 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