How can libraries be for open access and support restrictive access?
• The Settlement will increase access to library collections, in practice, rather than restrict it. Books in our libraries have become increasingly invisible in the Internet age. Digitizing the full text of these books will make them more discoverable and more accessible than ever before to library users and the general public. • Access is restricted only in the sense that one might have to pay to get a print-on-demand copy or to view full text via a license. This is the same situation that exists for journals and for current academic monographs, most of which are written by academic authors but made available through university presses and other publishers under standard purchase and licensing terms. • For materials that are still protected by copyright, full open access is a choice that can be made only by the copyright holder. Copyright for books may be held by authors as well as publishers. If copyright is held by authors, they have the option to allow greater access under the Sett
