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13. Do you have concerns regarding the difference between perpetual access vs. perpetual ownership? Do you have a plan in place for what to do if you have perpetual ownership without perpetual access (local storage)? Libraries
- Libraries are aware of the issue but have not actively worked to have a plan in place in case they would have to locally load content.
- Some hope that Portico or a consortial archiving answer will alleviate the issue.
- Some receive copies of the content on CDs which they store but have no plan for locally loading and serving the content. It is not an urgent enough issue to have impacted buying decisions at this point.
- They are content to have either perpetual access OR perpetual ownership specified in the license without having a plan for what to do if the downside of perpetual ownership without perpetual access already in place.
14. How in-depth of a license review are you doing for ebook package ordering and individual title ebook ordering? For example, do you try to negotiate interlibrary loan terms?
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