These slides are from Theresa Liedka as part of "The Charlotte Initiative on eBook Principles: Making eBooks Work for Libraries and Publishers" at AAUP 2016 in Philadelphia, PA.

1. Charlotte Initiative:
Licensing Principles Research Team
Theresa Liedtka
AAUP, 2016

2. Licensing Principles Research Team (LPRT)
• Our Charge
The charge of this research team is to address the
current licensing issues surrounding eBooks, the
Licensing Principles Research Team (LPRT) will first
explore the fundamental issues in eBook licensing that
are keeping libraries from achieving a collection that
meets the core principles of the grant; then it will
develop possible solutions.
• Members and Timeline

3. LPRT, Research Issues
• Role of Licenses
• Perpetual Access
• Unlimited Simultaneous User
• No DRM
• First Sale
• Interlibrary Loan

4. LPRT, Progress to Date and Next Steps
• Literature Task Group
• Conduct literature review
• Read and analyze for implications on Charlotte
Initiative
• Licensing Task Group
• Gather publisher licenses
• Read, analyze, and document trends,
commonalities and differences
• ILL