Copyright issues:
What is permitted:
Fair use
Photocopying: - Limited portion of the book (10%) or journal (two articles)
for academic or research purpose only
Scanning - The same limits for scanning and delivering to the end user for
his/her use and NOT for storing
For commercial use:
You can copy / scan to send to the end user any amount, but you need to pay
necessary copyright fee to the publisher or the Copyright Clearance Centre,
for that many articles / chapters.
Sometimes that works out to the same cost (or more) than the original!
If there is a demand, then the library needs to buy as many copies as
needed - not make copies. Digital copies for storage on an intranet - again
you need permission from the publisher - and they WILL charge a fee for the
same (the way you pay for consortia access)
I have put up a small guide to copyright in our QMed website at
http://www.qmedin.com/qmeddocs/copyright.html
And have pointed out two useful resources there -
http://www.bl.uk/services/information/copyrightfaq.html
http://www.iiap.res.in/library/ambacopy.doc
Regards
Vasumathi Sriganesh
Director, QMed Services
A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road
Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India
Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358
Email: vasu@qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com
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