From: Corey Seeman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 21:34:18 -0500

Hi Marian -

I hope this finds you well.

Harvard Business Publishing sees no distinction between the Harvard cases
or the Harvard Business Review articles in access.  It is expected that
when assigned for a class, each of these will require a payment.   We pay
the same thing for either if they are assigned for a class.  We have a
unique approach at Kresge Library Services (the business library unit at
the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan) where we manage
the course materials operation.  While we claim fair use when we can, we do
not claim fair use for any Harvard publication.  This is the addendum to
each Harvard document on Business Source Complete:

Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions, May 2009
Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Publishing Newsletter content
on EBSCOhost is licensed for the private individual use of authorized
EBSCOhost users. It is not intended for use as assigned course material in
academic institutions nor as corporate learning or training materials in
businesses. Academic licensees may not use this content in electronic
reserves, electronic course packs, persistent linking from syllabi or by
any other means of incorporating the content into course resources.
Business licensees
may not host this content on learning management systems or use persistent
linking or other means to incorporate the content into learning management
systems. Harvard Business Publishing will be pleased to grant permission to
make this content available through such means. For rates and permission,
contact [log in to unmask]

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So even though we can see the Harvard Business Review articles in Business
Source Complete (EBSCO) - they are not licensed for classroom use.  The
cases are not available in any database.

Our course materials program is a student pay, so we calculate each class
based on the submitted reading and they pay the licensing fees.  It is
hosted on Study.Net and students typically pay either directly (with a
credit card) or as a course fee.  The reason I bring this up is because we
have an enterprise license for the Ross School and Harvard.  The way this
works is that we pay for this from the money that students pay us for the
content.  This is an easier way for us to manage the course readings from
Harvard that our faculty are selecting.  The license is somewhat odd is
that the amount is based on the previous year's usage.  We have had it go
down and go up (mostly as the school population changes).

While business librarians and others have complained about this policy, the
school has to pay the license fee if they are going to use these documents
in class.  The charge is based on the number of students in the class.

There are alternative case collections (from Sage and Emerald and others)
that can be purchased and used repeated at no added license cost.  But for
this to be useful, the business faculty have to use them.  This could be a
good alternative if the faculty see them as being tools they want to use in
the classroom.

I would be happy to talk about what we do at Kresge.

Best - Corey

Corey Seeman

Director, Kresge Library Services (http://www.bus.umich.edu/kresgelibrary/)
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
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On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 3:24 PM LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Taliaferro, Marian <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 4:26 PM
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I’m seeking your advice on how to handle HBR case studies within the
> library. Have any of you been able to figure out if (and how) the library
> can provide support for these to your students? We have seen info to the
> effect that putting them on reserve is verboten. Further, the licensing
> terms in Ebsco indicate the studies are read-only
> <http://www.ala.org/rusa/sites/ala.org.rusa/files/content/sections/brass/Harvardbusinessreview/HBR500_RUSABRASS_110113.pdf>.
> If there is no way around the fact that each student needs to purchase the
> case studies individually, have any of you identified alternative (cheaper)
> case studies? Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Marian Taliaferro
> Digital Scholarship Librarian
> William & Mary Libraries
> (757) 221-1893
> [log in to unmask]
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariantaliaferro/
> orcid.org/0000-0003-4481-2396
>