It is interesting that Taylor and Francis e-books have a built in
copyright limit per user for what they can copy; after that it prompts
for payment. The same applies to amount printed from each book per
login.
Louise
Louise Cole
Electronic Resources Team Leader
Health Sciences Library
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
tel. 0113 34 35502
fax. 0113 34 34381
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Sent: 22 April 2004 16:23
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Subject: Copy and Paste - Yes/No?
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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