At 17:29 +0100 10/9/07, peter murray-rust wrote: >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.
They probably justify this as a "handling charge". > 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. coherent attempt follows I am researching a historical chemical article; much of the relevant literature was published 80-100 years ago. Two years ago, many of the journals were physically present on our departmental library shelves,. Now, along with other institutional copies, they are no longer on site, but in storage many miles away. Currently, even that storage has no access, and I was told instead to request Inter library loans. These take on average 1 week to process and are delivered as photocopies, to be collected at the central library desk. Collection requires the reader to sign an agreement limiting this photocopy for their personal use, and not to pass the copy on to others when they are finished with it, not to make extra copies, to scan it electronically or to have it translated. I feel this restricts my ability to make full use of the science contained in the article. I therefore requested (as a rather undesirable compromise) that rather than sign this declaration, I merely wished to spend a little time reading it, make appropriate notes, and then return it to the library. This request too was not granted. I was told that instead, I should request that the original item (in this case a large bound volume of a journal) be physically sent to me for loan. During my period of the loan, the above restrictions would not apply to this original version of the journal. Of course, during this period of loan, the volume would not be available to anyone else who might request it. -- 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). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
