RE: Scholarly communication, copyright, and fair use

["Sally Morris \(Morris Associates\)" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

One reason why using the link, rather than printing out multiple 
copies, could matter is that the usage statistics would thus 
indicate (to both the publisher and the institution) the true 
level of usage.  This could be important when it comes to 
renewal/cancellation decisions

Sally Morris
Partner, Morris Associates - Publishing Consultancy
South House, The Street
Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of claudia holland
Sent: 21 August 2009 21:39
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Scholarly communication, copyright, and fair use

But only authorized users can access database content, per the 
license agreement. And only registered students in a class can 
access content in e-reserves and a CMS, like Blackboard. If the 
university already pays for this content, then we should not be 
requested (or required) to pay for it twice. Granted the link to 
the article and not a pdf should be included in the prof?s 
Blackboard account (although in the long run, why does it 
matter). That requires the student to be authenticated through 
the proxy server, as well as become familiar with that database.

I recently was told that even if we purchased electronic access 
to a particular journal, the publisher would require us to pay 
copyright royalties if articles from that journal were posted in 
an electronic reserves account. I think not. No library would 
agree to this license language.

Claudia Holland


Sandy Thatcher wrote:

> 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