Acquisitions
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License Terms: A Second Reviewer
When entering into an agreement for information resources or services, it makes good sense to have someone else in your workplace review the terms. Continue reading
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Gatekeepers of Knowledge: Why Do Information Vendors Restrict Access to Research Platforms Across Library Types?
Legal information professionals, particularly those who manage vendor relations and license agreements, occasionally encounter the frustration of a desired resource that is not available for sale to their particular library type or sector. Continue reading
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Vendor
ContactInformationMany of you are aware of the amazingly helpful CRIV Tools available under the Advocacy > Vendor Relations section of AALL’s website. Jacob Nunnally and I found one of those tools to be unfortunately quite outdated while we went through the CRIV webpages for updates this past year: Vendor Contact Information. CRIV’s Vendor Contact Information… Continue reading
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Who has Access to Motor Vehicle Accident and Driving Records? It Depends.
I recently had an interesting convergence of my personal and professional lives involving risk management records. First, some caveats: while my examples both involve LexisNexis Risk Solutions, I am sure that my observations would not be unique to one vendor. This short post is not meant to be a comprehensive look at public records or… Continue reading
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Licensed Resources, Interlibrary Loan Requests, and Content Sharing
We probably all know the frustration of not having immediate access to information that a user requests. We do all the things a librarian does to find the item in our organization’s information resources, on the open web, and through document delivery services or interlibrary loan. Then we might phone a friend, ask a vendor… Continue reading
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