Colleagues,
We have been having a series of demos of e-book services this week at Kent
for library and academic staff. Whilst discussing a service this morning
one academic said she (and her colleagues) would prefer it if the books
had no 'copy and paste' facility as it would only encourage plagiarism.
She obviously felt strongly about this and even said the availability of
'copy and paste' could bias her and her fellow academics against
recommending the service to the Library.
Has anyone heard such comments from academics at their institution? Do you
know of any research into the opinion of academics on 'copy and paste' in
e-journals or e-books?
I have always thought the more facilities a service has and the more
'open' it is the better so I was surprised at this comment.
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent.
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