Re: Harvard Business School Publishing

This is second-hand, but I know one institution that was given the impression that even though the institution subscribes to a service that contains the HBR articles, linking to those subscribed articles (e.g. in Ebscohost) was not allowed. Note the phrase:

'...nor in "electronic coursepacks" that link to our digitized content...'

So that was a restriction on linking, not on providing the copies. So if a professor wishes to use a HBR article as a course reading, no link could be made on the course web site to the article that is available to the students through Ebscohost.

Has anyone else been told by HBR that linking from other systems to their articles is not allowed?

kc

Carol Resco wrote:

>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
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>To our colleagues in the academic community:
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Clearances for your coursepacks can be obtained from your institution's
>copyright permissions coordinator.
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>See more information on our Course Planning tool on our web site:
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>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
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>http://www.ogi.edu/library
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