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Judy, Others with more legal knowledge may disagree with me but my interpretation is that we have paid for access to the content of a title for all our staff and students and how we provide links to this content is our affair. I have not seen a site licence that specified how we made the content available only that we must restrict it to staff and students (and sometimes walk-in users). Even if there were such a rule (about a direct link) we could still give the bibliographic details and link to the journal title (or the host service where a direct link is not possible for technical reasons). Just my opinion. I will be interested to see the opinion of others especially those with a deeper legal knowledge of this area. Regards John Smith, The Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury. On Tue, 7 May 2002, Judy Taylor wrote: > A question from one of our academics: what is the legal position on linking to > online journal articles from a bibliography / "course pack" or similar in a > VLE? Would this require copyright clearance over and above the existing > institutional licence? (I have a sneaking suspicion it would, but I'd love to be > wrong.) Does anyone have experience of using VLEs in this way? > > > > Judy Taylor > Assistant Librarian > (Periodicals / Academic Liaison) > DUNDEE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY > DUNDEE DD1 4HN > tel: extn 5184, external dial 01382-345184 >