Tisch Library's Recommendations for Obtaining Publisher Permissions
- Become familiar with the Fair Use website. It contains a wealth of information in general as well as FAQs developed specifically in anticipation of the questions you may have. If you have Fair Use questions not covered by the website and FAQs, please send them to tischfairuse@tufts.edu.
- If your reserve readings include articles in any of the over 11,000 electronic journals to which Tufts subscribes, you and your students can link to them without obtaining additional copyright permission. A complete list of Tufts e-journals can be found on Tisch's electronic journals webpage. You can either link to the articles directly from your Blackboard CourseInfo page or put the URLs on your course syllabus. If you would like a personal consultation with a reference librarian to learn how to search for electronic journals, please call the reference desk at 7-3460.
- If you must obtain publisher permissions, contact names and addresses can be found in the online version of Ulrich's Periodical Directory. If you would like a personal consultation with a reference librarian to learn how to search Ulrich's, please call the reference desk at 7-3460.
- Since publishers' offices handle a large volume of permissions, it is suggested you use the publisher permission form letter when contacting publishers and allow up to 8 weeks to obtain the permissions before you submit reserves for processing at Tisch. If you have questions about persmissions letters, contact the Access Services Supervisor at 73343.
- If publishers bill for usage of reserve materials, please pay for it and send a copy to Tisch Administrative Services for reimbursement.