Hi Some of the papers should be past copyright and available on-line. I was surprised to NOT find Pavlov represented in Project Gutenberg where, for example, one can find many of Darwin's writings. Also, Chris Greene's historical documents site may have some of the papers you use? And Chris may have clearer idea about copyright issues for "older" papers.
Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Department of Psychology University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 CANADA >>> Jim Dougan <jdou...@iwu.edu> 10-Aug-09 12:27 PM >>> TIPsters, I have been teaching an advanced undergraduate seminar in learning and conditioning for the last 18 years or so. It is a difficult "readings based" course in which students read primary-source articles beginning with Pavlov and Romanes moving right up to very recent material. The course is modeled after the type of readings-based seminar that I am sure all of us experienced in graduate school. In fact, the purpose of the course is to give students experience in the type of seminar they will likely encounter in graduate school. Traditionally I have put these readings on reserve in the library (formerly physical reserves, more recently electronic reserves). Note that the library owns copies of all the books and subscribes to all of the journals, so there should be no copyright issues. At least so I thought.... Recently our library has instituted what I consider to be a draconian policy toward reserve materials. Specifically, the policy places serious limits on how much material I can place on reserve - to the point that it will be difficult to continue teaching the course. To summarize, reserve materials cannot form the required reading for the course (reserves must be supplementary material), and no more than 30 such items can be used for a single course (I have 47 assigned readings, all required). In addition, no more than 20 percent of the pages of a book may be photocopied (although the entire book may be placed in reserve). The library claims that these changes are being made because publishers are getting nasty in enforcing copyrights - and the old principle of "fair use" is being severely curtailed. Is anyone else experiencing these problems? Any suggested solutions? -- Jim Dougan P.S. I was originally told the students could purchase an electronic course-packet - but have recently been told that the course packet itself would be too large and they won't do it... P.P.S. The other solution is to circumvent the library completely and make the PDFs available on my own website. The library warns me that I am putting myself at grave risk - implying that they might even file a complaint with the university administration. Despite the luxury of full professorship I would rather avoid that.... --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
