Dear AMICO Rights Committee,

We received the following question from Michael May, of the University of Alberta, regardng providing access to their local tools for a faculty member at harvard University.

Michael's message, and our reply, are below. If all are in agreement, we'll post this to the University Testbed Licensing and Rights Discussion as well.

Best,

jennifer

QUESTION:

>Jennifer --
>
>One of our team members has made contact with Paul Bergen at Harvard. 
>Apparently he's on their AMICO team.  There's a wish to have a 
>look at eachother's image database, however I understand that Harvard 
>hasn't yet signed the site license.  It's been suggested that I ask 
>if you'd allow Paul to view the hand-crafted HTML database with a 
>couple dozen AMICO images in it, that is being used by Colleen 
>Skidmore's class this term?  Also, we've now got a side-by-side image 
>viewing capability  in the Library's image database, and it's 
>possible that we'll use that for January.  We might want to allow him 
>access to that as well.  Your advise is appreciated.
>
>Trust your happy and busy these days! -- mrm
>
>Michael May
>Humanities and Social Sciences Library
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2J8
>403-492-1411 (phone)
>403-492-5083 (fax)
>michael.may@ualberta.ca

RESPONSE

Dear Michael,

As a collaborator on a university research project, you can provide Paul with access to your local delivery of (parts of) the AMICO Library. We see this falling inside the parameters of the AMICO Library University Agreement.

best,

jt