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CLA Scanning Licence: Limits to scanning

There are limits on the amount of material you can scan from a work under the terms of the CLA Scanning Licence.

The proportion of a book, journal or magazine that may be scanned is restricted to whichever is the greater of:
  • up to 5% or one chapter of a book
  • up to 5% or one article of a journal issue
  • up to 5% or one paper of one set of conference proceedings
  • up to 5% or one report of a single case from a report of judicial proceedings
  • up to 5% of an anthology of short stories or poems or one short story or one poem of not more than 10 pages

However, the Licence does permit:

  • the same extract of a book, journal or magazine to be made simultaneously available to students on more than one discrete course of study
  • a digital copy of a different part of the same book, journal and magazine to be made available to students on another course of study
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CLA Scanning Licence - Copyright Support by University of Birmingham, Library Services is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.library.bham.ac.uk.