This is ironic given that their API is "standards based". http://www.serialssolutions.com/ss_360_link_features.html What, exactly, are vendors worried about when they hide their API behind an NDA? Even more disturbing, why bother advertising your API at all if a community can't be built to create innovative new ideas around it? It's a wonder why libraries put up with any of this. -Ross. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: > > > > Assuming that Serials Solutions will > > allow some kind of sharing for these - they make clients sign a NDA > > before they show you the docs. I'm waiting to hear their response; I > > would be surprised if they wouldn't allow sharing of something like this > > among clients. > > > > D'oh: here's the lowdown from SerSol: > > "The terms of the NDA do not allow for client signatories to share of > any information related to the proprietary nature of our API's with > other clients. However, if you would like to share them with us we can > make them available to other API clients upon request. I think down the > road we may be able to come up with creative ways to do this - perhaps > an API user's group, but for now we cannot allow sharing of this kind of > information outside of your institution." > > > > -- > Yitzchak Schaffer > Systems Librarian > Touro College Libraries > 33 West 23rd Street > New York, NY 10010 > Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 > Fax (212) 627-3197 > [log in to unmask] >