Academic Staff

If you need a book chapter, journal article or other print materials to be made available electronically for teaching purposes the Library can help. We can do this by either purchasing the electronic version or scanning the print version under the University's CLA's Higher Education Licence

The scanned documents can then be made available to your students as secure teaching and learning materials via platforms such as Blackboard Ultra, Brightspace and Reading Lists Online.

Scanned and digitised documents are a great resource for students, especially for materials which are heavily used, difficult to access, or essential reading. Only scanned extracts produced by the Library team allow you to safely share material in line with copyright regulations.

The Library Scanning for Teaching service creates machine readable and copyright compliant digital copies of journal articles and book chapters for teaching purposes. It ensures students are able to make use of the same resources whether they are able to access campus, are distance learners, have accessibility needs, or print disabilities.

• Scans are produced under the University’s Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Licence, which allows the Library team to digitise extracts from books and journals for use on a specific module.
• We create high quality scans using specialist equipment.
• We produce searchable, optical character recognition (OCR), pdfs to make the materials accessible for all students.
• We provide a link you can add to your Reading List, module, or any other learning materials, so students can simply click through to their digitised reading. 
• We ensure scans are provided legally by taking care of all the necessary licence checks and reporting for you.

We also provide a separate Chapters To You service which produces scanned extracts for personal research use.

For works covered by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Licence we can scan;

• One whole chapter from a book.
• Two whole articles from a journal issue – or, where the issue (or a substantial part of it) is devoted to a particular theme, any number of articles devoted to that particular theme.
• One short story, poem or play (not exceeding 10 pages in length) from an anthology.
• One whole scene from a play.
• One whole paper from a set of conference proceedings.
• One whole report of a single case from a volume of judicial proceedings.
• Or 10% of the total publication, whichever is the greater.

Some works, particularly from US publishers, may not be covered under the CLA Licence. We can still support you to legally share portions of these works, get in touch with the team for further information SLSResearchSupport@tees.ac.uk

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