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Friday, May 12, 2006

TPM and access to scholarship

Kristin R. Eschenfelder and Ian Benton, An Evaluation of Access and Use Rights for Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources, a presentation to be given at JCDL 2006 (Chapel Hill, June 11-15, 2006). Self-archived May 11, 2006.
Abstract: This research in progress investigates how technological protection measures shape how authorized users access and make use of digital collections of licensed scholarly resources. It seeks to ascertain the range and variation in access and rights restrictions, and whether observed restrictions were described in acceptable use statements and resource licenses.