Re: Who signs your license agreements? an informal survey Bolton, Karen S. 31 Mar 2005 16:35 UTC

Hi,
We are small engineering university library (about 2,000 fte students).
Our database and aggregator agreements are negotiated and signed by our
director.  I review the ejournal licenses and our director signs them.
The university has an attorney on retainer on whom we could call if we
had to; so far we have not had to.

Karen Bolton
Serials Librarian
bolton@msoe.edu

Milwaukee School of Engineering
Walter Schroeder Library
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI
53202-3109

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Hello all,

We are a medium-sized research library, and would like to hear from
other libraries of our size regarding the signing of database,
aggregator and e-journal package license agreements. Are your license
agreements negotiated and signed by library personnel or is this handled
by your university attorneys or university-retained law offices?

Please reply to me directly and I will summarize to the list(s).

Thanks

Jack D. Fitzpatrick
fitzpjd@auburn.edu
Cataloging Dept.
Auburn University Libraries