vendorpol

URLs for vendor privacy policies and terms of use, and whether creating an account is optional or mandatory.

Data

• title: name of the product
• product_type: (Index/Database, E-Book Package, E-Journals, E-Video Collection)
• vendor: name of vendor
• account: is account required to use the product? ("", optional, mandatory)
• privacy_url: URL of privacy policy (or "")
• tc_url: URL of terms and conditions (or "")
• notes

Data collected by Stephanie Power, of York University Libraries, during 2018–2019.

Usage

Requires Ruby.

To generate HTML:

$ ./generate.rb > tmp.html

On a Unix-type copy the HTML into your clipboard with xsel:

$ xsel -b < tmp.html

Now you can easily paste the HTML into your content management system.

To do

• Script to generate a list of products missing privacy or T&C URLs
• Normalize vendor names
• Generate Markdown version?
• Put explanatory text in a separate file and read it in
• Think about how to handle different institutions with different holdings using this

License

CC-0 (no copyright).