This message may only be of interest to liaisons - sorry!
I came across two AHC departmental web pages with references to articles that linked directly to the full-text. This could be a violation of our licensing agreements with vendors if people are linking to full-text via our licensed resources. In my experiences, both cases were linking to the licensed resource, which then could be used by non-affiliates to search, download, etc other articles.
I was able to verify that this was the case by using Megaproxy (http://www.megaproxy.com/), which is an anonymous surfing product on the web.
We may all run into these in the future as we write up our collection development policies and explore departmental web pages in-depth.
Lisa
Posted by biomedref at March 15, 2005 04:17 PMThis is definitely a problem. Janet Shandling has been talking to a number of faculty and is also quite concerned.
She is going to sponsor a copyright session to help, but perhaps we should craft a generic note to advise faculty that they need to work with us to create links.
Cindy
Posted by: Cindy at March 15, 2005 09:16 PM