Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

Collections Committee

Resources

• SPARC Contracts Library

Licensing Working Group

Charge

The goal of this 2025 working group is to establish and/or update template language for license clauses on topics including accessibility, artificial intelligence, text and data mining, and open access agreements. The resulting language will be integrated into VIVA's existing model contract, used in VIVA’s license negotiations, and may also be adopted by member libraries.

 Members

Jessica Bowdoin
George Mason University

Erin Crane
Virginia Community College System

Anna Creech
University of Richmond

Kiowa Hammons
University of Virginia 

Ed Lener 
Virginia Tech

Virginia Martin
Virginia Commonwealth University

Laura Morales
William & Mary

James Rhoades
University of Virginia

Wendy Veney
James Madison University

Helen McManus
VIVA

Genya O'Gara
VIVA