Do publishers oppose the use of e-reserves?
Publishers want to support effective means of bringing learning to students, and many publishers create, publish, and license content specifically for use in educational settings. The use of digitized copyrighted content in an e-reserve system does not exempt users from paying for the content, unless the copyright owner specifically agrees to its free use or the use in the particular circumstances falls within the boundaries of fair use. Therefore, whether it is called “e-reserves” or something else, the use of copyrighted content made available to students electronically as course reading materials should be based on permission obtained from the copyright owner and paid for just as any other copyrighted content that is reproduced and distributed to all students in the course. Publishers encourage institutions to publicly post their e-reserve policies online, and to similarly disclose the title and other bibliographic information for each work placed on e-reserve, at the beginning of t
