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After a brief review of the literature regarding e-reserves and copyright costs, ALA <http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/woissues/copyrightb/fairuseandelectronicreserves/ereservesFU.cfm> and Copyright Clearance Center <http://www.copyright.com/media/pdfs/Using-Electronic-Reserves.pdf> establish two ends of a spectrum. The literature review yielded several "news" type articles addressing the basic puzzle expressed by Eric during our staff meeting. In terms of the spectrum, the news tends to be about campus practices that are a bit risky (ALA) or a bit safe (CCC). Cornell's work with the Association of American Publishers is well covered in the press. In 2006, Cornell collaborated with AAP in the development of guidelines <http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/Archicves/2006_Sept/Sept_05.htm> to help faculty and library staff "do the right thing." The May 2007 issue (page 317)of College & Research Libraries News reports that AAP needed to revisit the success story due to alleged infringements. See <http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/policy/Copyright_Guidelines.pdf> and/or <http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/policy/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf> The article refers all interested parties who want to share questions and solutions to the Copyright Advisory Network at <http://www.librarycopyright.net>
I have a few articles coming via interlibrary loan that I will share with the group. My sense of things is that each campus decides its own policy based on the spectrum. CCC definitely addresses the "first semester free" in no uncertain terms. So if you thinking along such lines, please go to the site referenced for CCC above. If you don't mind engaging in somewhat high tolerance behavior, please read the ALA file. The legally safer route (CCC, AAP) will probably be more costly than the short term, less expensive ALA route. Sooner or later, it seems that if you play by the rules, you pay accordingly. The tricky part is anticipating costs for the annual budget. How much or how little depends on where we are on the spectrum.
The usual suspect databases (ASP, ERIC, Lexis, etc.) were search and ample hits were found.
