full-text example

[Jeff Rosedale <rosedalej@xxxxxxxxxx>]

About emailing a full-text article to students in a class:

All students enrolled in a class are, by definition, part of the academic
community.  Their  access to full-text content should be covered by the
database license.  Any self-respecting institution will provide off-campus
access to subscription databases.

So all that is required is for the faculty member to provide a durable link
to the article- functionality which most database vendors support. The link
could be served either directly by email, or as part of a courseware site
or electronic reserves page.  If the faculty member doesn't have this
expertise, a librarian should be able to help set this up.

I know this is a cop-out with regard to the technical copyright question,
but it does solve the problem at hand.

--Jeff

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Jeff Rosedale
Assistant Library Director 
Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase St., Purchase, NY  10577
Phone 914-323-3206 ; Fax 914-694-8139