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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