An Assessment of Access and Use Rights for Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources

摘要

This is a preprint of a paper to appear in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006. This research in progress investigates how technological protection measures are used on collections of licensed digital scholarly resources. It describes the range and variation in access and rights restrictions embedded in the technological protection measures; and, it analyzes whether observed access and use restrictions were described in acceptable use statements or resource licenses.