At 13:58 10/09/2007, Rzepa, Henry wrote: > > > >I will in fact go and try to collect it tomorrow. I will refuse to > >sign the copyright, asking only that I be allowed to read > >the paper document for 5 minutes and take notes. I fully expect > >the librarians to refuse this request, in which case an interesting > >stand-off will occur. I will let you know what happens!
Henry, You may have seen that I have asked the BL to respond to my concerns that it is making things difficult - amplified by the fact that it sells my Open Access article for 25 GBP. If it comes down to a discussion of facts it may be useful if you can summarize your experience coherently rather than trailing through my blog. P. >Final update on above. > >The issues apparently arise because I am requesting a <<copy>> of >the original. The act of copying negates all the original terms, and >a copy now constitutes a <<new work>>. This new work I >cannot give to anyone else, copy it, scan it etc. It is apparently >protected by a brand new copyright. > >BUT: The library has now gotten back to me saying that if I >had requested the <<original>> instead of a photocopy, all the >above restrictions vanish. I can do what I want, within <<fair use>>. >So, they will now send a 4 Kg journal from Boston Spa to London, >and back again. Whilst I have it on loan, I can do any of the above. > >Perhaps we should urge all users of ILLs (now that real libraries have >all but vanished, this is now most of us) to request the <<original bound >journal volume>>. Of course, they will get back at us, by forcing us to pay >the full cost of all this transport of paper around the country. > >Of course, all this applies to paper. God knows what they will think of >when the scanned photocopy is converted to Acrobat rather than print. >-- > >Henry Rzepa. >+44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax); >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (iChat) > http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College > London, SW7 2AZ, UK. > >(Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. >If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). Peter Murray-Rust Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
