May a library respond to a request for a thesis by supplying a photocopy of the entire document, assuming that the requesting library has paid the royalty that might be due?
Yes. The requesting library is always responsible for compliance with either copyright law, the CONTU Guidelines, or both, as the case may be. Your form should provide a place for the requesting library to indicate its compliance. 4. Our ILS staff keeps a current list of journals available to our patrons electronically. They check all incoming requests against the list and return ILL requests to patrons when the documents requested can be obtained electronically – just as in the case of requests for documents in journals for which the library has a print subscription. If the request were for an article published within the past five years (covered by CONTU) from a print title currently subscribed to but not subscribed to the year the requested document was published, we would not monitor copyright when we ordered the document via ILL. However, under the same circumstance with an electronic subscription, if the title was currently locally available only in electronic format, but not for
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