Hi Wally

We have access via our library to more recent articles from the American 
Psychologist via PsycInfo and PsyArticles. If your institution has this, then 
your students can each log on and read the articles on their screens, or print 
them out individually if they so desire, for their own, private use. If the 
articles are more than a few years old then you could get a copy and make it 
available for them to read. At our library we have an e-reserve system where 
the articles are uploaded in PDF for reading only. Or we have the old reserve 
system where they check the article out for an hour or two to read or 
photocopy, as they desire.

Those are my suggestions which will keep your conscience clear.

Annette

Quoting "Wallace E. Dixon, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>       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
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Department of Psychology
University of San Diego 
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