Study Outputs :
Eschenfelder, K.R. (2007)dLIST eprint 1803 Every Library’s Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources
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.
Eschenfelder, K.R.; Benton, I. (2006) dLIST eprint x Licensed Resource Use Restriction Assessment Data Collection Form
Data collection form used for dLIST Preprint 1803: Every Library’s Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources.
Eschenfelder, K.R.(2006) dLIST eprint 1518 Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources: A Report for ACRL.
This report summarizes the results of an ACRL Samuel Lazerow Fellowship funded research project to investigate the extent to which publishers and vendors are making use of technological protection measures (“TPM” also known as DRM) to control access to and use of licensed full-text scholarly materials or data sets. The study also began to explore the impact of access and use restrictions on learning, scholarship and library management.
Eschenfelder, Kristin R.; Benton, I. (2006) dLIST eprint 1155 An Assessment of Access and Use Rights for Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources (JCDL 2006 Poster)
This poster reports the initial results of a study investigating how technological proctection measures (TPM), or digital rights management systems, are used on licensed full-text digital scholarly resources from history, health sciences and engineering.
