[ILL-L] multiple article requests and copyright

[Megan Bayonet]

We do something very similar to this.  We'll request a copy of the article
and then post it to a password protected electronic classroom (we use
Blackboard, but there are other systems).  Each student has a login and they
can then view the article online.  At the end of the semester we take down
the article and destroy the copies.
 
I think that technically you are fine to request as many copies as you need.
We interpret the rule of 1 as one article per issue per person rather than
per the entire school.  Of course, you may run into CCG issues if you have a
ton of this.
 
Megan Bayonet
Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
mbayonet at mbc.edu
540-887-7317
 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Robinson, Arthur 
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:25 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] multiple article requests and copyright


We sometimes get this, especially when thirty English students are supposed
to find articles on the same play, short story, or poem.  Especially if
there are only a few citations in MLA International Bibliography, probably
several will request the same article.  When this happens, I contact the
instructor to discuss this.  What I have done (if the instructor is willing)
is to order one copy of the article, send it to the instructor, and notify
students that since multiple people in the class want the same article, I
have sent it to the instructor.  The students can then "check out" the
article from the instructor.  This isn't a perfect solution, but it's the
best I've come up with, especially since the instructor may have the same
assignment next year.
 
Arthur Robinson (GLG)

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Elizabeth H. Davis
Sent: Thu 10/16/2008 8:32 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: [ILL-L] multiple article requests and copyright



Good morning!

I'm curious to see what others would do in this situation:

In the last few days we have had several undergraduate students putting in
requests for articles that relate to the same topic.  So a few of the
interlibrary loan requests have overlapped -- I've gotten duplicate requests
for the same article, from the same journal, but from different students.
Since these requests are random (some students are putting in one request,
some are putting in 5-6 requests), I do not get the impression that the
instructor has given them the specific citations, but rather due to the
similar topics, the students are using the same search terms in one specific
database and retrieving duplicate citations.  If the instructor had assigned
a specific article, then I would see several students with just one article
request for the same thing.

I'm not sure if the Rule of 1 is applicable in this situation -- 1 article
request from 1 specific journal issue for 1 patron -- since these are
different patrons that are requesting the journals.  They are older journal
articles, so CCG won't apply.

Would you just go ahead and continue to order these duplicate articles
through ILL?  Would you do anything in regards to copyright?  Would you feel
that three requests for the same article from the same journal issue is
considered too much?  I'm thinking that I might be stressing out over a very
minor copyright issue for no real reason.

Thanks!



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