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Karen Harker - 27nov07

SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding): Opening Up New Possibilities for Electronic Resource Transactions  

Karla L. Hahn, Ph.D. ¹

Director, Office of Scholarly Communication

Association of Research Libraries <karla@arl.org>

D-Lib Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007

Abstract

Using license agreements to license electronic resources has become a norm for libraries and publishers, and both communities have labored to promote shared understanding of expectations for many license terms. While negotiated contracts are appropriate for some transactions, libraries and publishers are questioning their necessity for all transactions. The Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU) project offers a mechanism that can be used as an alternative to a license agreement. The SERU statement expresses commonly shared understandings of the content provider, the subscribing institution and authorized users; the nature of the content; use of materials and inappropriate uses; privacy and confidentiality; online performance and service provision; and archiving and perpetual access. Widespread adoption of the SERU model for many electronic resource transactions offers substantial benefits both to publishers and libraries by removing the overhead of bilateral license negotiation. 

Caryn Anderson - 3nov07

Feel free to post thoughts about usage data issues or to discuss your challenges or to respond to something someone else is saying here.

Oliver Pesch talked about COUNTER and SUSHI at the NISO Usage Data Form (1-2 Nov 07).

Kevin Cohn talked about part-level measurement standards at the NISO Usage Data Form (1-2 Nov 07).

Johan Bollen talked about item-level measurement standards at the NISO Usage Data Form (1-2 Nov 07).

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