for Electronic Institutional Subscriptions to Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists
Published by ASBC, a nonprofit scientific society since 1934.
TERMS of USE
Electronic Subscriptions to the Journal of the ASBC are available to academic libraries, corporate libraries, and other institutions. Electronic institutional subscriptions include the following benefits:
- Permission to freely distribute the content of the subscribed electronic journal to all employees, faculty, students, and/or local patrons of the subscribing institution who are located at the site(s) identified by the subscribing institution and whose computers are within the I.P. addresses that are provided to ASBC by the institution.
- Online access to the current subscribed volume and all back issues of the journal that are located on the ASBC web server beginning with the 1977 volume year as long as the institution’s electronic subscription is active.
- Freedom from restrictive licenses or signed agreements as long as United States copyright law is followed.
The following copyright statement is applied to the Journal of the ASBC in every format. Permission to distribute according to these terms of use applies to current paid electronic subscribers as well as print.
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
Copyright © by American Society of Brewing Chemists.
All rights reserved.
Permission to Distribute for Institutional Electronic Subscribers.
Permission is hereby granted to freely distribute the content of the ASBC journal to the employees, faculty, students, and /or local patrons of the subscribing institution via I.P. access during the subscription year. The employees, faculty, students, and/or local patrons must be located within the location(s) and I.P. address ranges as identified by the subscribing institution to ASBC.
FAQs
The questions and answers below further explain ASBC’s position on its institutional electronic subscriptions.
Q: How do the employees or students at an institution gain access to Journal of the ASBC on a daily basis?
A: Via I.P. address recognition. ASBC requests the institution’s I.P. addresses so that your users do not need to login to Journal of the ASBC. Access is quick, easy, and seamless for the user.
Q: What if the institution has more than one campus or location?
A: ASBC asks each institution to identify the campuses and locations served by the I.P. ranges you provide when you subscribe.
Q: How is the annual subscription price of an institution’s online access determined?
A: ASBC uses a number of factors to determine the price of the Society’s electronic journals including the size of the institution, the quantity of ASBC subscriptions at the institution, and the number of faculty, students, and/or employees at the institution who are identified as potential users. ASBC is a nonprofit society publisher and it is the Society’s goal to make the ASBC journal widely available online to as many potential users as possible at a reasonable price. The ASBC governing Board, which is comprised of scientists from universities and the brewing industry, wants to maintain the financial integrity of the journal while achieving a broad distribution of the scientific research.
Q: May employees, faculty, and students gain access to Journal of the ASBC when they travel to other locations or from their homes, dorm rooms, etc. by remote personal login to their institution’s internal network?
A: Yes, but only if they work, teach, or attend the institution in the location(s) served by the I.P. ranges where the electronic access is subscribed. Employees at satellite facilities that are not physically on the same campus or site must be identified by the institution at the time the institution subscribes to be included as qualified users, even if the users of the subscribing institution share time at both sites.
Q: What happens if an institution subsequently drops its electronic subscription?
A: All access to the Journal of the ASBC is lost.
Q: Are institutional users permitted to make copies of ASBC materials for distribution outside the institution’s own employees, faculty, students, and/or local library patrons where the journal is subscribed?
A: No
Q: What about interlibrary loan?
A: Subscribing institutions may supply interlibrary loan to the extent that they do normally with a print journal. Rather than supplying electronic files, the loaning institution may only supply printouts.
Q: Will licenses or signed agreements be required in the future?
A: ASBC reserves the right.
Q: Why did ASBC take this unprecedented approach of providing electronic access without
a signed agreement?
A: ASBC believes scholarly materials should be available within institutions with a little restriction as possible; provided its journals maintain their financial integrity. ASBC also believes that authors, readers, institutions, and journals within the scholarly community have a common purpose. Because of this, ASBC hopes all members of the community will act appropriately to ensure the ongoing simplicity of this system of access.
