This probably does not address Wally's request, but I offer it as a technique that is becoming more and more possible.  As you know, our libraries have growing databases of full-text journal articles. We can now link to specific articles or tables of content in APA journals and others directly from course web pages.  Ask your librarian what is possible at your school. On my course websites I link to a list of issues of a particular journal.  Students then click the specific issue and the article number.  Then they can read it on their computer and/or print it out.  For example, there is a link to a particular APA article at the following website on the date of  January 22 where it says "article (June 2002 #15)."

    http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/205/schedule.htm

Hope this makes sense,

Jon

Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. wrote:
Annette,
    Thanks for the tips.  Unfortunately, we don't have psyarticles.  And
although we have an e-reserve system, we are apparently not permitted to
have more than a single article from a journal issue on e-reserve.  The
articles I chose were from several series of articles within individual
issues, and so would violate that restriction.  I could put articles on
reserve for students to copy, and that may be what I resort to, but that
sure is silly.  Related to this, does anyone know whether I can put articles
on reserve in my office for students to come and copy.  Or alternatively,
can I make several copies of individual articles for my own use, and then
loan them out to students who happen to be interested in reading them?

Wedj

On 8/14/03 9:53 PM, "Annette Taylor, Ph. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  
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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