Hi all,
Here is some info from Jim Stemper about the license stipulations about sharing e-journal content from four providers. Might be good to keep in those dusty corners of our brains for possible future reference:
Science
AAAS
OK to email to U of MN-Twin Cities students/staff; not OK to email to an unaffiliated patron.
This right is not explicitly granted in the license, but the U's general counsel has advised us that in the absence of an explicit prohibition on sharing with affiliated users, that it is OK. Here is what we take to be the relevant wording (http://www.sciencemag.org/subscriptions/inst_terms_unlimited.dtl):
Licensee agrees to be bound by copyright law with respect to use of the site. Moderate downloading, printing, or saving of material for personal, scholarly, or educational, noncommercial use is permissible, only to the extent consistent with the "fair use" doctrine. Extensive downloading, printing, or saving of articles by Authorized Users is not permitted.
Nature
Nature Publishing Group
OK to email to U of MN-Twin Cities students/staff; not OK to email to an unaffiliated patron.
Our CIC (big 10) consortium added a new subsection to NPG's standard license, which states:
Authorized users may make all use of the Licensed Materials as is consistent with the Fair Use provisions of the United States and international law. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to limit in any way whatsoever the Licensee's or any authorized Users rights under the Fair Use provisions of the United States or international law to use the Licensed materials.
But it did not delete the standard prohibition on sharing with non-affiliates, noted below.
Ecology Letters
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Blackwell
OK to email to U of MN-Twin Cities students/staff; not OK to email to an unaffiliated patron.
The Blackwell license states: "Authorised Users and Walk-in Users may, subject to Clause 4 below: ... 3.2.4 Distribute single copies of parts of the Licensed Material in print or electronic form to other Authorised Users" (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/license/license.pdf).
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Elsevier
OK to email to U of MN-Twin Cities students/staff OR to an unaffiliated patron.
The specific Elsevier license wording is: "The Authorized Users may: transmit Excerpts to other Authorized Users and to third-party colleagues for their scholarly or research use" (http://info.sciencedirect.com/licensing/samplelicense/sample_license_academic.pdf).
And all of the licenses have very standard wording to the effect of "Sharing of the licensed material with anyone other than authorized users, except as outlined here, is prohibited." So unless the right to share with outsiders is stated explicitly as above with Elsevier, you don't have it.