The purpose of this study is to explore the legal implications for UK university libraries of providing their catalogue records for re-use in Web applications and, in the light of these, provide practical legal guidance to libraries interested in doing this.
The aims of the study are to clarify the legal status of records in UK university library catalogues and in the national Copac and SUNCAT catalogues (records in Copac are largely derived from the Research Libraries UK Database and the status of records in that database, therefore, will also be considered as part of this work) and in the light of these findings, to provide guidance to university libraries on the legal implications of providing their catalogue records for re-use in Web applications.
Further details on the JISC website at - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/resourcediscovery/recordreuse.aspx.
(22/09/2009)