Re: [MCN-L] Open access but fees for publishers?

2017-02-22 Thread Matt Morgan
Perian, for examples you might look at software like anti-virus, unzipping & PDF-making utilities, etc., which often have "free for personal use" licensing models. My experience has been that policing is unnecessary; anybody who might pay is inclined to pay, because it's easiest. Imagine

Re: [MCN-L] Open access but fees for publishers?

2017-02-22 Thread Dueker, Peter
Hi Perian, My advice is to keep things as simple as possible. The National Gallery of Art does not charge use, permission, or image access fees to download or use works of art available through Open Access. We do charge processing fees to offset costs of providing additional imaging services,

[MCN-L] Open access but fees for publishers?

2017-02-22 Thread Perian Sully
Good morning everyone (on the West Coast at least), For those of you who are pursuing open access initiatives, do you carve out an exception for publishers? Obviously, publishers can grab whatever they want if assets are offered at full-resolution, and it's hard for us to police, but publication

[MCN-L] Cataloging and Metadata Practices Survey

2017-02-22 Thread Heidi Raatz
Posting on behalf of the Visual Resources Association (VRA) Data Standards and Core Oversight Committees. *** Dear Catalogers and Metadata Specialists, On behalf of the Data Standards and VRA Core Oversight Committees of the Visual