Harvard Business School Publishing

The following message was sent to one of the management faculty at our institution. We subscribe to Harvard Business Review in print and also have access to the online through Ebscohost. We have used articles from HBR in our Eres system. The following message seems to indicate that no online posting of articles from HBR would be allowed without going through their course system (which of course means paying for every use!) They discuss "copyright" but aren't they really talking about "licenses" for electronic material. I am thinking that I still should be able to photocopy from our print collection, scan that, and mount on the electronic reserves server. Am I totally wrong?--Carol Resco

To our colleagues in the academic community:

Harvard Business School Publishing has received an increasing number of inquiries about posting our content on library "e-reserves" and course platforms. This short note is intended to clarify our policy toward digital content delivery, and provide you with a set of guidelines to follow.

Harvard Business School Publishing distributes Harvard Business School Cases, articles from the Harvard Business Review and our family of newsletters, and books from the Harvard Business School Press for use in MBA and undergraduate courses in universities worldwide. It is our aim to provide our content to students and instructors in the format they find most useful and convenient, whether that is hard copy from our presses, locally reproduced copies, or digitized files for downloading.

We do not permit the posting of our cases, articles, or chapters on "e-reserve" course pages for student access, nor in "electronic coursepacks" that link to our digitized content, nor on course management systems such as WebCT or Blackboard, unless doing so via our Course Planning system. Such unauthorized postings are equivalent to distributing our copyrighted content to students, and doing so without our permission infringes that copyright. This is so even if the content is being used for the first time and is password-protected, accessible only to students in the course, and taken down at the end of the course. Please do not post or display HBSP content in this way. Using our Course Planning tool is every bit as easy and functional.

Clearances for your coursepacks can be obtained from your institution's copyright permissions coordinator.

See more information on our Course Planning tool on our web site:

Carol S. Resco
Library Director, OGI School of Science & Engineering Library Oregon Health & Science University, West Campus 20000 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, OR 97006-8921
(503) 748-1060
(503) 748-1029 FAX

rescoc[_at_]ohsu.edu

http://www.ogi.edu/library Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 02:38:51 GMT