Copyright: Permissions

Licensed Journals and Databases

The University Library holds many license agreements with publishers and distributors of journals and collections in electronic format. These agreements generally permit reasonable amounts of downloading, printing, linking, or other uses of the licensed content. To determine the allowed uses for articles in a subscription journal:

• search for the journal title in the Copyright Permissions Look-up tool, below, which also serves as the index to the Library's Complete Journal Holdings
• look for Terms of Use: View beside the resource containing the journal, and click View.

For example, if you searched for the journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology you would retrieve the following result:

After clicking View, you should see a "License Terms of Use" chart like the one pictured immediately below that lists permitted uses for articles used on E-Reserve/Moodle or in a Coursepack. As well, Scholarly Sharing indicates whether you may share a copy of the article with a research colleague who is not a U of L student, faculty or staff member.

Alternatively, you can look up an article title in Summon and then view its terms of use:

• Search for an article title in the Summon search box near the top of the Library home page.

• At the bottom of the article record, click More Detail.

• In the list of details, look for Terms of Use: and click View.

• You should now see either a "License Terms of Use" chart similar to the one pictured above for journals in the SpringerLink collection, or a list of sources containing partial or full runs of the journal issues, like the one pictured below.

• If you do not see "Terms of Use: View" beside a source containing the article you wish to use, in general you can use the article for fair dealing purposes such as education and research if your use complies with the U of L fair dealing guidelines and the use is not prohibited under the website's terms of use or copyright policy. If in doubt, please contact the University Copyright Advisor office.

Note that if you are re-using a Moodle course containing copyrighted material, permissions must be reassessed each time the course materials are used again in a new term as the copyright or licensing status of some materials may have changed. For more information see Reusing Content under the Moodle tab on the Copyright website. The University Copyright Advisor office is happy to assist you with permissions assessment of your Moodle course materials.