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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 06:15:12 -0500
From: Ann Okerson <ann@CNI.ORG>
Subject: Modification in G & B Copyright Policies (fwd)

At ALA, G&B were distributing a press released that modified their 1995
subscription license terms.  It is reproduced below.  The Photocopy
License Rate is still confusing, but overall the document is helpful in
addressing concerns of research libraries.  Also, there now appear to be
three rates instead of four.

<Ann Okerson, ARL>
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IPD
International Publishers Distributor, Inc.
820 Town Center Drive
Langhorne, PA 19047

1 February 1995

COPYRIGHT POLICIES FOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES OF GORDON AND BREACH AND
HARWOOD ACADEMIC JOURNALS for academic library subscribers in Europe,
North America, and Australia

There are three rates for academic libraries: Photocopy License Rate;
Base Rate; Network Rate.  None of these rates restrict the subscriber
from the copy and interlibrary loan activities allowed by the
subscriber's national copyright law.  These rates were instituted with
the intention of offering greater usage allowances to the subscriber
than is allowed by copyright law, yet retaining a form of compensation
to the publisher for use that exceeds the copyright law.

PHOTOCOPY LICENSE RATE

This rate appears in the Price List distributed by International
Publishers Distributor (Distributor for Gordon and Breach/Harwood
Academic Journals).  The License is 10% of the Base Rate and permits the
subscriber to make multiple photocopies of single articles for the
internal research or study purposes of the subscriber in *excess* of the
number of copies allowed under applicable law.  With this license, the
subscriber does not have to report copying to the publisher or any
reporting agency.  Academic libraries may have this fee waived by
returning to the publisher a waiver form that is supplied on request.
The License fee will be deducted, and this deduction will be reflected
in the invoice to the library or its agent.

BASE RATE

Without the License, the subscriber is at the Base Rate.  The only
restriction of the Base Rate is the national copyright law, and its
reporting requirements, under which the subscriber operates.

NETWORK RATE

The Network Rate is for those subscribers that are engaged in
commercial document delivery and whose primary use of the journal is for
document delivery to third parties.  This rate is three to six times the
License Rate, but it allows high-volume re-sale of one or more
photocopies of single articles to third praties.  Most subscribers were
not even offered this rate.

IPD PRICE LIST

In the price list distributed by International Publishers Distributor,
there were two items in the explanation table that were in error.  The
reference to Swiss Law and Zurich Chamber of Commerce should not have
been included and is fully retracted.  The law that will govern a
subscriber's right to make copies will be the law of the country in
which the copies are made.  Please also note that interlibrary lending
under the Base Rate and Photocopy License Rate is permitted as governed
by Copyright Law.

CD-ROM

Gordon and Breach is developing interactive CD-ROMs for its journals in
the physical and medical sciences.  The publisher is already receiving
visual material from its authors for inclusion in the CD.  The first
CD's will be issued upon completion of the 1995 volumes.  Published 1995
volumes will include references to the visual data that will appear in
the subscription CD-ROM at no extra cost.

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

Publication dates for subscribers are available over an interactive
voice response system.  By dialing in, and entering the ISSN, the caller
will know when the last issue was published, and when the next issue
will be published.  This will be also available on-line in the near
future, but anyone with a touch-tone phone can find out now if they have
to register a claim for missing issues.

Publication Schedule Phone Number:  (201) 643-7500; Dial Extension 260
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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 16:07:44 -0600
From: Mary M Spila <MMS6824@TNTECH.EDU>
Subject: G&B waiver

Hello,

        Today I received a letter from EBSCO outlining Gordon & Breach's new
pricing policies.  In the letter we are given 2 choices to get out titles at
the "base rate", one of these choices involves signing a "one-time Gordon &
Breach Photocopying License Waiver".  Has anyone seen a copy of said waiver?
Could anyone get me a copy of this waiver?  EBSCO doesn't have a copy of it, I
called and asked.

        How do they expect us to make a decision without all of the needed
information?

Thanks - Mary

Mary Spila
Periodicals Librarian
Tennessee Technological University
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Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1995 13:54:58 -0900
From: DEBBIE H KALVEE <FFDHK@AURORA.ALASKA.EDU>
Subject: Gordon and Breach

Thanks very much to all of you who responded to my query.

-- Debbie Kalvee, Bibliographic Access Management
   Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks