This page aims to explain the background to the introduction of course packs and give instructions for lecturers who distribute photocopied copyright material to students. Copies of the full document can be consulted in the Teaching Organisation Offices, or at the AI Library. The University pays a fixed fee each year for each full-time equivalent student which nominally covers 65 pages of copying per student. The fees are set by the copyright holder for each work.
Clearance is available by fax and by telephone.
If you know that you will be handing out enough photocopies during a course to constitute a course pack, but you don't know exactly which papers you will be using then please request a separate authorisation for each article, or batch of articles. If there is a barcode, the ISSN is often printed next to the barcode. The ISBN, or International Standard Book Number is a ten digit number which should be printed on the reverse of the title page of the book. It is quite often printed on the back cover or dustjacket as well, next to the barcode if there is one. If you cannot give an exact number of students then please make a low estimate since it is simple to repeat the authorisation for subsequent students.