Part of my job is to negotiate license agreements for the electronic resources my library acquires. There are always a few sections of a license that need to be rewritten to fit our organization; one of those is the section on defining who is allowed to use the resource, the “authorized users.” The usual language of a license defines an authorized user group as “faculty and student,” but at my university we have researchers who are neither faculty or students, clinicians that don’t have faculty status, etc. I usually propose the following definition for “authorized user”: faculty, staff, student, researcher, and other affiliated user. I don’t usually propose adding “monkey” to the category.
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