The Chronicle of Higher Education

Legal Battle Brews Over Texts on Electronic Reserve at U. of California Libraries

By SCOTT CARLSON

Publishers are objecting to an electronic reserve system at the University of California in which libraries scan portions of books and journals and make them available free online to students.

In recent months, lawyers for the Association of American Publishers have sent letters to the university...

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