The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has endorsed the soon-to-be launched British Library INCD Service for the supply of copies of articles to non-commercial end users via not-for-profit libraries outside the UK. The INCD Service is underpinned by agreements with publishers, for which a framework licence agreement - to be entered into directly between individual publishers and the British Library - has been agreed with the British Library by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) in consultation with the Publishers Association (PA).
ALPSP recommends that its members sign up to licence agreements with the British Library based on this framework before November 29.
Under these agreements, articles supplied via the new service will only be available to an individual student or lecturer at an educational institution served by an authorised library or a person affiliated to the institution in another manner, for non-commercial research or private study only.
Authorised libraries, defined as non-commercial libraries linked to educational institutions that choose to use the new INCD service, will actively monitor and ensure end users' compliance with the differentiation between commercial and non-commercial use. There will be a cap on the number of deliveries to each authorised library in any calendar year. The cap is set at nine items from each volume of a journal or serial or from the same book.
INCD licence agreements with the British Library could deliver additional sales for publishers by exposing their content to a wide range of potential subscribers. The British Library will supply details about who is ordering copies under the service enabling publishers to target potential customers for subscription, where usage suggests this would be appropriate.
Additional security for publishers is provided by the cap on the number of items that can be ordered by an individual authorised library in each calendar year; once this cap is exceeded, the publisher's set fee will apply.
The new service will start from January 1, 2012.
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