ICOLC Statements

From time to time ICOLC issues statements regarding topics such as electronic information resources, pricing practices of electronic information providers and vendors, and other issues of importance to directors, governing boards, and libraries of consortia.

Recent Statements

Consortial Letter of Opposition to MLA's Exclusive Relationship with EBSCO
July 26, 2018

Previous Statements

ICOLC Response to the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) Statement
June 22, 2011
Revised Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses
June 14, 2010
Statement on the Google Book Settlement
December 13, 2009
Statement on the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records
May 11, 2009
Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses
January 19, 2009
Statement Concerning the Decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to Discontinue its Relationship with JSTOR
October 30, 2007
Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Information Resources (1998, revised 2001, 2006)
October 4, 2006
Support for Urgent Action to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals
November 16, 2005
Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information: Update No. 2, Pricing and Economics
October 1, 2004
Privacy Guidelines for Electronic Resources Vendors
July 1, 2002
Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Information Resources (1998, revised 2001)
December 1, 2001
Guidelines For Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Indexed, Abstracted, and Full Text Resources
November 1, 1998


To view ICOLC Statements prior to 2002, please visit: http://legacy.icolc.net/statementsanddocuments.html