We decided that our first efforts will be aimed at the creator angle as this is more likely to attract interest. A faculty seminar on this issue will be planned for Fall 1997. Issues will include terms to seek in contracts with publishers, an author's rights to republish his material, and community interest. CCC reports that it has had about 100 requests from 20 sites. Response is taking about one month on average.
Pricing is similar to that for course packs and typically includes a per student charge.
This is a pilot project which assumes no fair use right for electronic reserves. He will also talk with the Law School about its experience in putting exams on the Web. Jane Ginsburg described Hypatia, the concept for a Web depository for scholarly papers, and distributed her paper on it that was to be presented at the conference sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation later in April. Interesting issues surrounding this self-publishing include potential impact on tenure and retaining credit for one's ideas. Mary Summerfield and Carol Mandel updated the group on the pilot project for getting permissions to put items from the CC Reader on the Web.