RE: Question re: Harvard Business Review Articles

["Croft, Janet B." <jbcroft@xxxxxx>]

There was a discussion of this on the Lib-Reserves list not long ago.  This
has been going on for many years. A pertinent excerpt below:

>>>>> Gilles Poitras <gpoitras@xxxxxxx> 7/8/2009 11:28 AM >>>
>> We addressed this by creating an instructional document on how to
>> search
>> for HBR articles and we link to that document in course reserves for
>> any
>> class using such articles.
>>
>> Document at:
>>
>> http://library.ggu.edu/search/t?SEARCH=Access+to+Harvard+Business (
>> http://library.ggu.edu/search/t?SEARCH=Access+to+Harvard+Business )

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-----Original Message-----
From: Braham, Brenda [mailto:Brenda.Braham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:35 AM
To: Rosemary Hartigan; digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Question re: Harvard Business Review Articles

Not that I am aware of but maybe we should all make links to HBR
articles and see what they do.  Brenda



From: Rosemary Hartigan [mailto:RHartigan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:30 AM
To: Braham, Brenda; digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Question re: Harvard Business Review Articles



The contractual stipulation seems to me to be against public policy.



I wonder if anyone has challenged the legal basis?



Rosemary



Rosemary Hartigan, J.D., M.A.

Professor and Director, Business and Executive Programs

Graduate School of Management and Technology

University of Maryland University College







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From: Braham, Brenda [mailto:Brenda.Braham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tue 8/11/2009 11:15 AM
To: Rosemary Hartigan; digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Question re: Harvard Business Review Articles

HBR has had this stipulation for many, many years which, I think, is
ridiculous.  We should be able to provide a persistent link to any
article.

Brenda Braham, Digital Initiatives Librarian
& 2nd Vice Chair, Staff Senate
Montgomery College
Rockville Campus Library
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Rockville, MD. 20850
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rosemary Hartigan [mailto:RHartigan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:07 AM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Question re: Harvard Business Review Articles

Hi Everyone,

Our school has Harvard Business Review in several of our library
databases.

This semester we were told that we could not include Harvard Business
Review
articles in our syllabi unless we had the students purchase the
articles.  We
include other articles from journals in our databases, and students
download
the articles from the library.  But now, we are prohibited from this
practice
with HBR articles.

My understanding is that Harvard Business School Publishing's position
is that
our license for HBR is for research only and not for assignments.

So students may read HBR articles from the library if they find them in
the
course of research, but we may not guide them to the articles via
assignments.
It's fine if they stumble upon them, but we can't recommend an article.
I
don't know if I can post a paper with HBR references.

My response to this is not to assign any HBR articles, but this seems
like a
very heavy-handed infringement on academic freedom.

Has anyone else experienced this prohibition?  I'd be interested in
learning
about your views, particularly if anyone has some related research into
the
question.

Thanks.



Rosemary Hartigan, J.D., M.A.
Professor and Director, Business and Executive Programs
Graduate School of Management and Technology
University of Maryland University College