Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced that it is expanding the availability of its Annual Copyright License for academic institutions to colleges and universities of all sizes. The move follows the strong initial reception to the licensing programme, launched in June 2007. Since then, 18 colleges and universities have purchased the licence.
Initially offered only to smaller institutions, the license is now available to the full range of colleges and universities, both public and private. To date, 300 publishers have signed on to the programme and nearly 800,000 titles are now covered by the license, with more publishers participating every week. Publishers that have recently joined include Elsevier, Dow Jones & Company and MIT Press. Academic institutions that have purchased the license include Middlebury College, Portland Community College, Texas State Technical College System and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
CCC's annual Copyright License provides faculty, researchers and staff with comprehensive, convenient, pre-approved permissions to use print and electronic content in course management systems, paper and electronic course packs, e-reserves, research collaboration and more. The license provides 'check-and-go' permission to use content from books, scholarly journals, news and trade magazines and newspapers and many other types of content.
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