Further to the comments about e-journals and VLE's, colleagues may wish to check the terms of their licences - clause 1.6 of the Sage Publications "SAGE Journals Online" licence and clause 3.3.1 of the NESLI Model Licence, for example, would indeed seem to permit the copying of the original electronic version onto the licensed institution's local server as part of a VLE, provided the source is fully acknowledged, access is restricted to registered students, and the copies are deleted once the course has ended. for further info. see: http://www.nesli.ac.uk/modellicence8b.html and http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals regards, Jonathan Burch Copyright Officer Main Library University Library University of Leicester P.O. Box 248 University Road Leicester LE1 9QD United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)116 252 5014 Fax +44 (0)116 252 5075 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.le.ac.uk