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Every Library’s Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources

Eschenfelder, Kristin R. (2007) Every Library’s Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources .

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Abstract

This study explored what technological protection measures (TPM) publishers/vendors of licensed scholarly resources employ by assessing the use restrictions experienced in a sample of resources from history/art history, engineering and health sciences. The analysis develops a framework of use restrictions that distinguishes between soft TPM - which discourage use - and hard TPM - which strictly limit or forbid uses. Within soft TPM, the framework identifies six use discouraging TPM: extent of use, obfuscation, omission, amalgamation, frustration and threat. The study concludes that these soft TPM are common in licensed scholarly resources. Further, while hard TPM are less common, they are not unknown.

EPrint Type:Preprint
Keywords:digital rights management, technological protection measures, DRM, TPM, electronic resources, usability
Subjects:Digital Libraries
Social Informatics
Electronic Publishing
ID Code:1803
Deposited On:05 March 2007
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