Comparing Use Terms in Spanish and US Research University E-journal Licenses: Recent Trends

This paper describes the results of a study to compare contemporary e-journal licenses from two research universities in United States and Spain terms e-reserves, interlibrary loan, text data mining, authors’ rights treatment copyright exceptions, usage statistics, governing law, privacy, obligations entailing security. The include higher proportion scholarly society academic press publishers than earlier license analyses. analysis compares over time, across publisher types between libraries, it findings with recommendations model licenses. show progress toward goals some areas, but deficiencies others including self-archiving, statistics clauses, clauses related e-resource privacy library security disciplinary obligations. Our also raise questions about international ILL venue outside North American context.