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At 19:09 11/05/2004, you wrote: >Greta has raised an interesting point re copyright. I suspect that >academic libraries may have a special license to send just one copy to a >recipient. I have an interest in this as a journal editor, but by no means an expert on copyright. I doubt whether any such licence exists (but are there any librarians on the list?), but the idea of 'fair dealing' is important. If a library subscribes to a journal (or if you do personally) then the publisher has had some payment, and in practice will not object to single copies of small parts of the journal for use by staff, even though making a copy is a breach of copyright. Making a copy to supply to someone else who might otherwise have to subscribe, or pay a fee to get a copy, is probably different. After all, the journal does cost money to produce. Everything in this field is being transformed rapidly by the on-line publishing revolution. With my own journal, a researcher might find a paper we have published from the contents list or by a Google search, and if they want a copy of that single paper, they can then download one from our website for $23. This kind of arrangement is widespread for academic journals, and in due course may largely replace subscriptions, but I think that Occupational Health Review (the subject of the original enquiry) does not yet have an on-line edition. Trevor (Dr) Trevor Ogden Editor in Chief, Annals of Occupational Hygiene http://annhyg.oupjournals.org/ [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] North American Editor: Professor Stephen Rappaport, [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. Visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html for list archives