Re: Question re: Harvard Business Review Articles

[Georgia Baugh <baughga@xxxxxxx>]

If you read the license from EBSCO, since it is the only vendor that has
Harvard Business Review, you will see that it is excluded from direct
linking to articles.  I had not heard the part about a reference to an
article not being included in a recommended reading list.

Apparently, HBR does not want anyone to read their articles unless they are
found "accidentally"--an odd stance for a publisher.

Personally, I do not see how anyone can learn to do research without having
first done at least a bit of directed reading.
My two cents.

Georgia Baugh
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Braham, Brenda <
Brenda.Braham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not that I am aware of but maybe we should all make links to HBR
> articles and see what they do.  Brenda
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> 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
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> The contractual stipulation seems to me to be against public policy.
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> I wonder if anyone has challenged the legal basis?
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> Rosemary
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> Rosemary Hartigan, J.D., M.A.
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> Professor and Director, Business and Executive Programs
>
> Graduate School of Management and Technology
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Brenda Braham, Digital Initiatives Librarian
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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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Rosemary Hartigan, J.D., M.A.
> Professor and Director, Business and Executive Programs
> Graduate School of Management and Technology
> University of Maryland University College