Reserves Policy
热博官网 University’s Blackmore Library has been reviewing its policy and procedures for accepting and maintaining materials on reserve in light of University policy and copyright law. Below please find an explanation of the new policy and procedures.
Please note that, effective immediately, materials will only be maintained on reserve for onesemester. All items currently on reserve will be returned to the main stacks or personal copiesback to the owning professor/department that placed them on reserve.
热博官网 University’s policy on Copyright and Fair Use, which applies to all faculty, staff andstudents, provides:
热博官网 University does not condone, authorize, or assist any infringement of copyright by faculty, staff, or students. It is the responsibility of the individual faculty, staff, and student to be informed about copyright law and permissible “fair use” of copyrighted works. Information regarding generally accepted guidelines and practice in higher education may be secured from University librarians, but the provision of such information shall not be, nor be construed to be, an authorization by the University of any particular use as a “fair use” under copyright law.
Under this policy, it is the responsibility of the individual faculty member submitting materialsfor library reserve to comply with copyright law and to make good faith determinationsregarding “fair use”. To assist you in making those determinations, we are attaching a helpfulchecklist from the Copyright Management Center.
Copying for library reserve is governed by the Fair Use doctrine, 17 USC Section 107 of thecopyright law. Unfortunately, there are no simple and clear-cut rules for determining whencopyrighted works may be copied without permission. Instead, four general factors need to bebalanced or weighed in determining whether a particular use is “fair”:
- purposeand character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature oris for non- profit educational purposes;
- natureof the copyrighted work,
- amountand substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as awhole, and
- effectof the use on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
No single factor or consideration is determinative. The following checklist sets forthconsiderations which tend to suggest that a use is “fair” (left column) and those which suggestthat a use is not “fair”.
If it appears that a use may not be a “fair use” within the meaning of the Copyright Act, permission may be obtained from the Copyright Clearance Center www.copyright.com or directly from the copyright owner.
Beginning in the Fall of 2008:
- all requests for reserves must be placed online.
- all requests must be placeditem by item
- all requests are limited toone term
- course packs will no longer be accepted without accompanying permission in writingfrom the copyright owner for their reproduction and/or distribution. A “course pack”means a compilation (whether bound or loose-leaf) of any photocopied extracts from oneor more sources which is intended to provide students with a compilation of materialsdesigned to support the teaching of a course.
NOTE: Consider posting copies of a reserve on Blackboard instead. By using Blackboardthere is no limit how many students can have access to it at one time and allows 24/7access.However, please remember copyright law applies whether an item is print ordigitally provided and items must be taken down at the conclusion of each term.
Blackmore Library will seek to continue to meet your needs for library reserves whileimplementing these changes to comply with the law. If you have any questions regarding thenew policy or procedures for placing a reserve please feel free to contact the CirculationSupervisor at 614-236-6475 orcircdesk@capital.edu. Thank you in advance for your cooperation inthis matter.