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
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