Subscribers have unlimited use of the resource. Each distributor sets its own combined license and service fee. Public library and K-12 prices are lower on a per user basis. Please click to review RLG's rates. Member dues are approximately equal to the subscription fees paid by universities.
Institutions sign licenses and are entitled to designate categories of users.
Licenses for K-12 institutions and for public libraries are being developed through consultation with representatives of these institutions in testbed settings. The licenses also permit many uses that go beyond Fair Use. For universities and museums, these are all staff, students, researchers, and visitors to the institution. Generally the uses established allow for use in all ways that are part of the educational practices and missions of the licensing institutions, including teaching, research, on-line reserves, testing, distance education, incorporation into student projects, and retention in portfolios. This is a very sensitive issue, as any creative artist knows.