Has anyone who works at a state university found a way to provide Web
access to the Index of Christian Art? If so, how did you deal with the
license agreement, which includes an indemnification clause that would be
illegal in almost every state? The publishers' lawyers won't let them
change this provision in the license, and our lawyers won't let us sign an
agreement that contains an indemnification clause; presumably that would be
the case at any state university. This is the first U.S. publisher I've
found that would not make this very standard change; ironically, the
publisher is a (private) educational institution.
Has anyone found a way around this? Has anyone else wanted to subscribe
but been unable because of the license? If many of us have had to forego
this resource, perhaps collectively we could find a way to help the
publishers convince their legal office to allow the change.
Timothy Shipe
University of Iowa Libraries
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