Electronic reserves

[Carolyn_Gonzalez at medcom1.smtplink.amedd.army.mil]

     Stacy:
     
     I'm in the process of organizing a completely digital library for the 
     US Army's Center for Healthcare Education & Studies.  At this point, 
     we plan on using SIRSI's Stylas product, which will have both an 
     electronic media reserve section for courses, and a digital media 
     archive to carry the digitized documents for the main catalog.  
     
     As far as copyright goes, the library has a membership with the 
     Copyright Clearance Center.  This costs us $105 a year, plus $1.80 per 
     request for clearance, in addition to any royalty fee the copyright 
     holder wants to add.  I haven't requested copyright clearance for the 
     stacks of journal articles these instructors are waiting to send me, 
     (We're just now getting ready to order the SIRSI product.) but once I 
     do, I'll be able to let you know what kind of royalties people want to 
     tack on for electronic access to their materials.  When I request 
     copyright clearance, I'll be specifying that I'll be making electronic 
     copies.
     
     That's how I'll be handling our digital library's copyright situation, 
     anyway.
     
     I'm sorry to hear that your professors have been reticent to use your 
     electronic reserve service.  Here at Fort Sam, the physical Med. Sci. 
     library doesn't even have a well-organized course reserve section.  
     When many instructors want their students to read a journal article 
     for class, the students have to go find the journal and make their own 
     copy (either at the library or through the Web).  I'm hoping the 
     instructors will find the electronic reserves section of this digital 
     library to be a useful spot to hold articles for their students.
     
     
     Best of luck with your project,
     
     Carolyn Ellis Gonzalez, Librarian
     US Army's Center for Healthcare Education and Studies
     Martek Communications, Inc.
     3407 NE Parkway, Suite 130
     San Antonio, TX  78218-3349
     
     phone (210) 221-6514
     e-mail Carolyn_Gonzalez at medcom1.smtplink.amedd.army.mil


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Subject: Electronic reserves 
Author:  spober at manvax.cc.manhattan.edu at Internet-Mail
Date:    4/14/97 9:16 PM


This year, I wanted to add some of our college library's 
reserve materials to our website.  We limited the material 
to documents to which the college or the individual faculty 
members held copyright.  This left out the bulk of the reserves, 
but left a substantial minority of things like syllabi,
homework answers, handouts, and old tests that have been put 
on reserve.
     
I personally called a number of faculty who had such materials 
on reserve at the MC Libraries, and all of them thought this was 
a great idea.  Unfortunately, few of them seemed to want to 
participate.  Finally, one kind soul did allow us to put up his 
course materials, which I hope will encourage others.
     
Has anyone else had this problem of faculty reticence about putting 
their reserve materials on the library web pages?  I'm unclear 
why so many people who thought this was a great idea in theory were 
reticent about actually using the service.  
     
Also, I'm wondering what would be involved in getting copyright 
permission to put some articles that are on reserve onto our web 
pages.  Has anyone gone that route?  How much work was involved 
in getting clearance, and what were the costs involved?
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