SRUC pays for The Copyright Licencing Agency (CLA) Higher Education Licence. It is not a general copyright licence but it allows Library staff to legally make PDFs of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers available on Moodle for registered students.
Unless scans are made under the licence or through direct agreement with rights holders or due to copyright being expired or covered by a third party licence, they are likely to be illegal.
The Library provides a digitised extract service to ensure that articles and book chapters loaded onto Moodle comply with the licence. This service includes checking that required book chapters and journal article are covered by the licence, making the scans, adding the necessary cover sheets to scans and undertaking the reporting requirements of the licence.
The CLA have a right to undertake an audit on Moodle to check our compliance with the licence.
What can be copied ?
Under the Licence, print and electronic book chapters, journal articles and conference papers can be scanned and made available on Moodle provided:
What cannot be copied?
How much can be copied?
For a module the following amounts can be copied from publications
10% of the total publication OR
Who can these copies be made for?
Copies can be made for registered students to support their course of study.
To request a digitised extract please complete the 'Digitised Extract Request Form' below, and send to: copyright@sruc.ac.uk
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If you wish to request more than one chapter from a book, we can make a request to the rights holder and find out the cost. Rights holders will not necessarily agree to a request and can take time to reply. Please allow plenty of time for this.
If your request is not covered by the CLA Licence the Library can
Once a scan has been created, the Library will add the link to the scan on the relevant online reading list. If there is not already an online for that module, Library Staff will create on and in liaison with the lecturer add this to the Moodle module. Students can then access the scan from the reading list.
Under the Licence agreement scans need to be in a secure environment and only accessed by students on the course they were scanned for.
References for images included within this guide:
TheDigitalArtist (2020) Copyright, Protection, Legal, Property. Available at: https://pixabay.com/photos/copyright-protection-legal-property-5267129/ (Accessed: 15 June 2021).