[ILL-L] Adding scanned theses/dissertations to locale-collections/Copyright?

[Ursula Scholz]

Hi David,
Unless the dissertations are old enough to be in the public domain, or unless you have permission from the copyright owner (usually the author), then you would not be able to add pdf copies to your collection.  It would be something like taking a book off the shelf, making a photocopy of it, and then adding the copy to your collection.  Also, given that UMI pays royalties for copies made by them, there is a clear case for loss of revenue for the author.
HTH,
Ursula


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Ursula Scholz
Head, Access Services
uscholz at luc.edu / 773-508-2636
Cudahy Library
Loyola University Chicago

>>> "Atkins, David P" <datkins at utk.edu> 3/23/2009 3:04 PM >>>
Hey all,

We are going to start re-using PDF ILL scans of some old, paper-only
theses.  We'd like to add them to our ETD collections.

The scanning and cataloging part is not a question.  It's the copyright
workflow that's a bit of a head scratcher.  The question is how does an
institution identify a thesis as a candidate for adding to a local
e-collection?

Has anyone already invented this wheel?  Devising workflows or questions
to ask in determining if an institution is within copyright to publish a
pdf version of a paper thesis?

Thanks,
David

David P. Atkins
Head, Resource Sharing/Document Delivery
John C. Hodges Library
datkins at utk.edu 
The University of Tennessee
(865)974-6866
Knoxville, Tennessee  37996                               fax
(865)974-2708
                     



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