After checking a couple of library policies on reserves you MIGHT be able to do the following.
Assign the required reading and have the issues of American Psychologist (or even copies of the articles) placed on reserve at the library. If you have full-text assess to the American Psychologist this could be an e-reserve. Here is the tricky part. You can't have one reserve with all of the articles because that would be a collection of anthology and requires copyright permission, however some (not ALL) libraries that I checked allow multiple reserves per class. If each individual student does the copying it is personal fair-use and part of the reason the libraries get charged a fortune for journals (if you haven't seen your library's journal budget for psychology ask - we had one quarterly journal charging our library over $1000 per year). Not the most creative solution (by the way you probably could have been free to distribute copies for one semester under the spontaneity clause however I suspect TIPS record of your e-mail would be rather damming evidence in court). Doug Doug Peterson Assistant Professor of Psychology The University of South Dakota Vermillion SD 57069 (605) 677-5295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:49 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: The prevention of dissemination of scientific knowledge I must be daft, but I would've thought since the major Kinko's lawsuit several years ago, publishers of scientific journals would've placed a greater value on the dissemination of scientific knowledge than on revenue enhancement, and would've adjusted their copyright policies accordingly. Maybe some publishers do, but not the APA. I will need to be edified about the underlying rationale for why scientific journals find it useful to place obstacles in the free and unfettered dissemination of scientific knowledge, because I can't see it. Anyone who can straighten me out, please do. So here's the deal. As you may remember from my last request, I am trying to gather provocative and exciting articles published in the scientific literature to accompany a textbook for my graduate research methods class. I found at least two dozen very cool articles in the American Psychologist. Being rule-minded as I am, I checked their copyright policy. I did this pro-forma because I had assumed that APA would be at the cutting-edge about publication policy for the distribution of their copyrighted articles for use in academic courses. But you know what happens when you assume! Not only am I not allowed to copy and distribute more than a single APA article to my students freely, but I have to pay 35 cents per page per student. This figure came from the Copyright Clearance Center. Now I am confronted with three courses of action: 1) not share the articles with my students, 2) break the copyright law and distribute the articles anyway, or 3) find some loophole that will allow my students to get copies of these articles without any of us breaking the law. I am writing to TIPS to follow up on the third option. Have any of you found ways of accomplishing this objective without becoming a criminal? Wally Dixon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. | Chair and Associate Professor | Rocket science is child's play of Psychology | compared to understanding Department of Psychology | child's play East Tennessee State University| -unknown Johnson City, TN 36714 | (423) 439-6656 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
