Re: a "can of worms" to open...

From: Lorre Smith <ls973[_at_]cnsvax.albany.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:45:34 -0500

On 2/25/00, Amy Jo Hatfield <ajhatfie[_at_]iupui.edu> wrote:
>
> I am a graduate student in the School of Library and Information
> Science at IUPUI. I am interested in conducting a study that will
> explore how copyright effects electronic reserve services in a large
> multi-disciplinary university setting serving undergraduate, graduate,
> and doctorial students (most of whom are commuter students). I want
> to look at the "big picture" of copyright and electronic reserves,
> but more specifically, the levels of restrictive publisher policies
> with regards to electronic reserves and how those policies (copyright)
> restrict how much can be digitized and accessed under "fair use" vs.
> "required copyright permission." I am having difficulty finding any
> previous research that address these issues. I, therefore, am posting
> to this listserv in hopes of some feedback, opinions, experiences, and
> maybe even some citations of previous work.
[... remainder of Amy's post elided...]

Hello,

I have done some preliminary research on electronic reserves policies with regard to copyright. I have composed a page of links to a couple dozen or so of these policies as they are stated on the World Wide Web.

Let me know if you would like to look at this page.

Lorre

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Ms. Lorre Smith
Librarian for Digital Library Initiatives University Libraries LE 310
University at Albany
State University of New York
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222

Telephone: 518/437-3966 ; Fax: 518/442-3567; Electronic Mail: ls973[_at_]csc.albany.edu

For information on copyright:
http://www.albany.edu/library/divs/reserves/copyright.html

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Received on Fri Mar 17 2000 - 16:43:01 GMT