LibAnswers @ ADU Library: Intellectual Property

Review the publication agreement you signed with the journal publisher. You may have signed away your copyright. You are strongly encouraged to maintain some of your Intellectual Property rights by attaching an Author Addendum to a publisher’s agreement. 

If you want to provide copies of the articles to your students or colleagues you will need to follow the following:

In print:

• A single, print copy of a journal article or a book chapter may be distributed to each student in a face to face class environment for one semester. Subsequent copying for another class or another semester requires permission from the copyright holder.

Electronic Access including Blackboard:

• A digitized copy of a single journal article or a single book chapter may be posted on a secure website such as Blackboard for one semester or a single class. Access to the article is limited to students enrolled in the course. Subsequent copying for another class or another semester requires permission from the copyright holder. If the Library subscribes to the online journal you may provide a persistent link to the article. See the image below to create a persistent link.

• Sending a PDF of journal articles to students via email is discouraged. It is too easy for students to forward the article to unauthorized users thereby compromising the license agreement with the publisher of the journal.