Use, users, usageWhere next for resource licensing? JIBS, London 16th June 2010

Martyn Jansen, Contracts & Legal Manager

Aligning the Chest licence

• preliminary considerations• update• propositions for next steps

Meeting the challenge

• fit for purpose Chest licence terms• complete• clear and simple• practical• consistent• future-proofed

Standard licence grant

• Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Licensor grants the Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, perpetual licence to use the Product for the Licensee’s own internal business purposes.

Chest special considerations• authorised users and other permitted users

• authorised = students, faculty members, employees• other permitted = other student , other teachers; retired members of staff; alumni

members, visiting academics, researchers and research supervisors, visiting students; associated persons, walk-in

• types of use• teaching • research• personal educational development• administration and management • development work • other uses in special conditions

What we did

• end to end review launched• consulted with HE/FE• researched suppliers’ own terms• revised user and usage clauses• consulted all data suppliers

Usage

The licence is granted for the following purposes only:-• teaching• personal educational development and research• administration and management of the Institution• inter-library loans• downloading and inclusion in course packs, theses and other

student works• permanent archiving of theses and other student works in

JORUM/other repositories.

Users• (1) students registered by the Licensee, wherever located and visiting students

while they are on the Licensee’s premises in the UK or the Republic of Ireland;

• (2) personnel (including contractors) used by the Licensee to undertake teaching, research, administration or support activities, including visiting academic staff while they are on the Licensee’s premises in the UK or the Republic of Ireland;

• (3) former students and retired members of staff, but strictly for the purposes of personal education or research only and not for any commercial purposes;

• (4) any other individuals while they are on the Licensee’s premises in the UK or the Republic of Ireland (“walk-in users”).

What we learnt

• 23 suppliers• 6 use own terms• 4 responses• 13 happy?

What we learnt

• permanent archiving (1)• non-UK students < 5% (1)• retired teachers, former students, walk-in users (3)

What we’ll do next

• refine licence terms, listen but lead• permanent archiving – explain/negotiate• non-UK students < 5% - incorporate as standard• retired teachers, former students, walk-in users –

consider• “commercial pot”

Feedback

martyn.jansen@eduserv.org.uk

Thank you!