Dear Professional Colleagues,
I removed all the breaks in the trailing mail and made it as a running text.
At the outset, the discussion was started to suggest some guidelines while seeking help from library professionals. Now the discussion topic appears to be diverted to copyright related issues. I request and suggest, let publishers and database aggregators post a weekly Tip on copyright issues (about few paras) so that readers can read it. (like Management Tips from Harvard Business School).
Coming the original topic, I request all our professionals
1. Do make some homework before posting request for papers on forums.
2. Send details of the paper in the body of mail instead of sending a link alone.
3. Make the list short, so that the response may be more positive. A big list of request papers may get deleted without response.
4. Reveal your identity through your signature. One need not hesitate or shy of revealing the identity. The signature may motivate many people to respond.
5. your close friends may know your Orgn and workplace.. But most of the professionals may not know you.
5. If your library is not a member of DELNET, become its member. It is not expensive NAAC accreditation look for association with such networks.
6. The trailing mails has mentioned many other forums which can be searched while looking for information.
7. Try to contact Author for help. The author may have author's copy of the paper. They may help.
8. If you know the availability of resources in a special kind of library, try to contact them for help. The response may be encouraging.
Let us not throw mud on each other. Not replying/rejecting mails, which don't have signature and details of the papers is not a solution. We are in cooperative and resource sharing age. Let us help each other to improve the image of the profession and show that we are service professionals.
Manjunath
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From: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Sathya
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 6:42 PM
To: Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed)
Cc: Ravi Hullur; mk-rao@hotmail.com; Ishwar Goudar; harsha maga; lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; Anil K Tyagi
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Article request - Good suggestion
Dear Vasumathi
Yes, it is the "requesting library" which is responsible for compliance with copyright law and, where applicable, the CONTU Guidelines. Lending Library will have to ensure that the requestor has complied by taking some declaration. Also, CONTU guideline is applicable for only newer articles that are less than five year old.
Regarding your question: "how do we get our libraries understand and follow
these steps?", I can only say that there should be tutorials 2-3 hours on
Copyright Law and compliance requirement for libraries. There is a well written handbook on this subject, which should help in preparing the material for such a tutorial.
- Copyright for Librarians: The Essential Handbook. By Berkman Center for Internet and Society. 2012.
*N.V. Sathyanarayana*
*Informatics (India) Ltd, *
*Bangalore. India. *
On 16 November 2015 at 16:52, Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed) http://www.qmedkf.org.in/
www.indianmedicalsites.in
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Sathya http://old.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html). Most publishers agree for ILL exchange of articles from e-journals under CONTU guidelines.
This is expressed in their license agreement either by default or by asking by the library while signing license agreement.
Broadly, the following are the guidelines of CONTU provision.
(Reproduced from: https://www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/content/ill_contu.html)
1. CONTU Guidelines for copying from periodicals apply only to materials less than five years old (referred to as part of the "rule of five"). [For materials older than five years, standard copyright rule applies]
2. Up to five articles may be copied from a single periodical in one calendar year under the ILL provision (referred to as part of the "rule of five").
3. A library with a subscription for a periodical, which is not immediately available, may consider a copy obtained from another library as if made from its own collection.
4. All ILL requests must be accompanied by a copyright compliance statement from the requesting library. The requesting library must maintain records of all requests and of their fulfilment. These records must be kept for three calendar years after the request has been made.
5. No more than six copies of articles/chapters/small portions may be made from a non-periodical (including a book) during the entire term of copyright of the work.
6. For copying beyond the CONTU Guidelines, the library may need to obtain copyright permission directly from the copyright holder or from a representative such as Copyright Clearance Center <http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=ac1-n.
*N.V. Sathyanarayana*
*Informatics (India) Ltd, *
*Bangalore. India. *
On 14 November 2015 at 10:44, Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed) <
vasu@qmedkf.org.in wrote:
Asking for articles, by itself is not a violation of copyright practices. (As long as it is for fair use, of course!) I am a member of the Medical Librarians' (USA) mailing list, where people do ask. But, the rule is that they should have tried all other options (their DOCLINE - and more) and only then ask.
Also there is something called Rule of 5.
While I do not know the exact rule, it is something to the effect that if a library asks for more than five articles from one journal title, for any of their readers, then, from the 6th article onwards, they need to pay the copyright fee, or subscribe to the journal. It is the responsibility of the requesting library to ensure this
Also - they follow other rules that make it easy for those receiving the requests. For eg - in the Subject line of the email - they write ILL: [Citation] - where - they put in the citation in a std format - journal abbrn, year;vol:page And then in the body of the email, they put in the full citation and not ONLY the link to the article (which is very difficult for the eye, in the absence of the citation)
I believe we are in a position to create such rules after finding out the specifics from other countries. I can find out from the Medlib-L list, and if others can also find out and we arrive at certain rules, that would be nice
Also - can we all do something to ensure that the NUCSSI holdings are regularly updated, AND the libraries who have their data, make arrangements to answer email requests and supply articles? We could even arrive at a reasonable fee per article, just to ensure that there is no unnecessary overload.
It would be nice to have a constructive discussion on planning a right future trend for this. And implement things step by step as soon as possible
Vasumathi Sriganesh
QMed Knowledge Foundation
(Trust - Reg No: E-24663)
A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East,
Mumbai 400099
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Anil K Tyagi http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/21505594.2014.984567.pdf is also free)
A general tip - before asking on this forum, please try pasting the title in Google, Google Scholar and Researchgate. Google and
Google scholar can get you the links to the full text, if free. If not, very often the author is on RG and can be requested for the article
Please teach these tips to your users too
Best wishes
Vasumathi Sriganesh
QMed Knowledge Foundation
(Trust - Reg No: E-24663)
A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri
East, Mumbai 400099
Tel: 91-22-40054474 Mob: +919867292230
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:14 AM, shashi bhat
