Access

What Users May Access the Thesauron Depository?

1. European Copyright User Platform (accessible via arl.cni.org/scomm/sum .html ) has a grid model for legitimate access considering the following dimensions:

a. type of library: national, university, public, and so on.

b. whether user groups are open (the general public), closed (a specific subset who have a formal relationship with the organization), or registered (individuals who have authorized passwords).

c. types of permissible activities, including digitization and storage, viewing, downloading, copying, exporting, and so on.

2. Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University Press) (128.220.50.88/proj_descrip/rights.html): allows access through universities only to faculty, students, and staff (access expected to be enforced by subscribing universities).

3. University of Texas system (www.utsyem.edu/OGC/intellectualproperty /l-resele.htm) discusses restriction of electronic distribution of copyrighted materials to enrolled students.

4. Virginia Tech (ei.cs.vt.edu/courses..html) digital library in use for computer science courses.

Conditions on Use

1. Nontechnological means of control

a. University of Texas system (http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/intellectualproperty/rsrvguid.htm ) suggests: retrieval of works in electronic reserve systems by course number or instructor name, but not by author or title of work.

b. ASCAP (www.ascap.com ): collective on-line licensing for all copyrighted musical works in ASCAP's repertory; does not allow reproduction, copy, or distribution by any means (enforced contractually, not technologically).

2. Technological devices

a. CORDS (lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/): individual digital works will be assigned "handles" that code for access terms and conditions established by rights holders.

b. Ivy League (www.cultech.yorku.ca/projects/docs/ivymain.html ): Canadian consortium of companies, universities, and rights clearance organizations; employs encryption, fingerprinting, tagging, and copy prohibition to enforce limitations on user and use.

c. IMPRIMATUR (www.imprimatur.alcs.co.uk/ ): U.K. consortium in development for copyright managed Internet server; interested in using numbering system and cryptography to limit access.

d. Technology providers (information available through IMPRIMATUR site or www.ncri.com/articles/rights_management/ifrro95.html )

How Would Users Access Material from the Thesauron Depository?

1. Course syllabi/electronic reserve lists

a. For summary of fair use and academic environment, see arl.cni.org/aau/IPi.html#Background. For a computer science-oriented digital library aleady in use with computer science courses at Virginia Tech, see ei.cs.vt.edu/courses.html.

b. model charters of electronic reserves: University of Kentucky (www.uky.edu/Libraries/elecrestf.html ); Duke (http://www.lib.duke.edu/access/reserves/intro.htm )

c. links to further info: www.columbia.edu/~rosedale.

2. General search engine

a. The Computation and Language E-print Archive, an electronic archive and distribution server for papers on computational linguistics, natural language processing, speech processing, and related fields, is accessible by a variety of means, such as: title/author search; abstract number; most recent acquisitions; form interface searches. See http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/.