Re: PDF resource (3 additional responses)

Hi Patty, 

When you purchase PDFs for professors, do you first check with publisher if the library can print a copy and circulate? Sometimes, the PDF is for 1 distinct single user. Is there any case, where you make PDF available on your library’s server? If you purchase dataset, how do you make it available? 

Thanks 
Shyama 

Shyama Agrawal 
Acquisitions/Serials Librarian 
J. Michael Goodson Law Library 
Duke University School of Law 
Campus Box 90361 
210 Science Drive 
Durham, NC 27708 
Phone: 919-613-7070 
agrawal_at_law.duke.edu 

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From: Patricia Sutton <pross_at_law.harvard.edu> 
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 12:57:03 +0000 

Hi Curleen, 

When we purchase PDFs for professors, if it is determined that they are appropriate for the collection, we generally will print them out and bind them so they can circulate. 

Patty Sutton 

Harvard Law School Library 
1545 Massachusetts Avenue 
Cambridge, MA 02138 
(617) 495-3737 

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From: "Lana, Amy" <lanaa_at_missouri.edu> 
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:34:12 +0000 

Hi Curleen, 

If we purchase a pdf we tend to make it accessible via our ILS, but put it behind a proxy so only our users can get to it. Hope this helps; please feel free to contact me directly if you need more details. 

Best, 
Amy 

Amy Lana 
University of Missouri Libraries 
lanaa_at_missouri.edu / 573-882-4757 
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu 
https://mospace.umsystem.edu 

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From: Lesley Harrison <Lesley.Harrison_at_openpolytechnic.ac.nz> 
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 19:38:28 +0000 

Being solely a distance education provider we provide access to many, many journal articles, book chapters, pdfs from other websites, all of which are used as course readings or support resources. Where they are part of course material (readings) we obtain copyright clearance, publish the pdf to our own internal server and make them accessible via the library catalogue. This means that only current students can gain access through their individual logins. 

This does not include those articles, pdf or HTML, which are accessed through our subscribed databases – journals, ebooks etc. Access to them is again only available to students via their individual logins, with license and copyright being covered under our agreements with the individual database vendors. 

Lesley Harrison 
Team Leader 
Collection Services, Library 
Open Polytechnic 
Kuratini Tuwhera 

Phone +64 4 9155886 or 0508 650200 ext:5886 | Fax +64 4 913 5644 
3 Cleary Street, Waterloo | Private Bag 31914, Lower Hutt 5040 
http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz 


---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliott, Curleen" <CElliott_at_ncc.commnet.edu> 
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 13:20:39 +0000 

Hi, 
I recently purchased a PDF only toolkit/manual for an instructor. I am curious as to how other institutions handle this type of purchase. Do you print it out and make it available for check out, or do you provide access to the PDF file from your ILS? It did not come with any licensing or restrictions. 

Thanks, 

Curleen Elliott 
Serials, Acquisitions and Student Worker Supervisor 
Norwalk Community College 
Norwalk, CT 
(ph) 203-857-7215 
(fx) 203-857-7380 





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