All entries for Friday 14 July 2006

One Reason for institutional repositories

Just came accross a situation at another University where a tutor wanted to reference journal articles on the author’s own web pages. The author might or might not own the copyright and therefore might or might not be legally able to make those articles available in the way that s/he has.

How confident can the tutor who wants to link to those articles be that the content is in fact legal? Although the author puts out a disclaimer allowing visitors to print the material, if the author has no right to do so then is the tutor who references the website in fact supporting his/her students to make illegal copies since the students might make copies in good faith that the disclaimer is legal.

If the content were hosted within an institutional repository then we could be confident that some procedures had been followed to verify the copyright status of the items in the repository.

Jenny Delasalle : 14 Jul 2006 16:24 |  Tags: Institutional Repository |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem