{"id":2236,"date":"2008-02-09T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T19:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=489"},"modified":"2008-02-09T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T19:39:52","slug":"seru-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/seru-initiative.html","title":{"rendered":"SERU Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niso.org\/committees\/SERU\/\">   SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding<\/a> is an attempt by libraries and publishers alike to break out of the licensing process that many in both camps find problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, it is a straightforward agreement that a particular library subscribes to a given resource, and that the &#8220;shared expectations&#8221; of each side will be respected.\u00a0 All this with no licensing contract.\u00a0 An invoice and payment, and their presence on a registry maintained by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niso.org\/\">National Information Standards Organization (NISO)<\/a>, serves as the legal basis for the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of those business deals where you know that the person you are dealing with is thinking long-term, and that a handshake means more than a legal contract would with someone else.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how well this works in practice&#8230; it would be great to streamline access to information in a way that benefits everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>found via the <a href=\"http:\/\/list.uvm.edu\/cgi-bin\/wa?A2=ind0802&amp;L=serialst&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=25203\">SERIALST<\/a> list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding is an attempt by libraries and publishers alike to break out of the licensing process that many in both camps find problematic. Simply put, it is a straightforward agreement that a particular library subscribes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/seru-initiative.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2917,2943,2951,2952,2956],"tags":[3743],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquisitions","category-libraries","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-periodicals","tag-national-information-standards-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-A4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}