Re: Scholarly communication, copyright, and fair use

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

If the library subscribes to journals in electronic form and teachers
provide URLs to the content paid for, publishers have no objections.
When libraries turn into subsidiary printing operations and create
many more copies of articles than they purchased through
subscription, that indeed exceeds what they paid for and interferes
with the market for the publishers' products.

Sanford G. Thatcher
Executive Editor for Social Sciences and Humanities
Penn State University Press

>I'll probably show my ignorance of the publishing world here, but
>here goes anyway...
>
>Sandy says that"income streams must be generated to pay the costs
>[of peer review]. These streams include charges for use of
>massive amounts of materials in course packs and e-reserve
>systems like Georgia State's."
>
>I understand the need for revenue streams to support the peer
>revue process. But in cases where a library already subscribes to
>the journals in question, isn't that sort of double-charging? An
>institution pays for a subscription to a given journal, and then
>pays again to use pieces of the same journal in electronic course
>packs and e-reserves?
>
>Bernie Sloan