electronic reserve

[Steve Melamut]

If I were a cynic, I might wonder if the faculty are just more protective of
their own copyrights than they are of other people's. 

Electronic reserves will be a wonderful thing if everone's copyright
protections are respected.  

Steve Melamut
University of North Carolina

(sorry, I've been working on a paper on the subject for several days and
nearly everyone I have read is terribly sanctimonious about their own
rights, but unwilling to look at anyone else's rights. My favorite so far is
the professor who felt that one major incentive for using electronic
reserves was that under fair use, the students would no longer have to pay
the permission fee that is charged when using the articles in coursepacks.
With electronic reserves, everything would be free!!)

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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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