Research
E-Reserves Permissions and the Copyright Clearance Center: Process, Efficiency, and Cost
Type: Journal Article
Author
J. Christopher Holobar, Andrew Marshall
Description
This journal article presents a cost analysis of using the Copyright Clearance Centre's pay-per-use service to clear rights for use in 2961 course readings at Penn State University Libraries.
Date
2011 January
Abstract
The abstract provided by the author(s) of this work is as follows:
This study examines the process of requesting copyright permissions through the Copyright Clearance Center’s (CCC) pay-per-use service for electronic course reserves at the Penn State University Libraries in 2008. The authors investigate the efficiency of this process as a function of the percentage of permission requests successfully mediated by the CCC, the time required to submit and fill requests, and transaction and royalty costs. They conclude that, while the CCC is clearly more efficient than attempting to request permission from individual rightsholders, the process remains burdensome and rightsholder royalty pricing models are unclear.
Commentary
The open access version of this work does not include tables of results from the rights clearance process.
Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Institution
Penn State University
Journal Title
Libraries and the Academy
Volume
11
Issue Number
1
Pages (from-to)
517-531 pp.
Source
Jurisdiction
United States
Language
ENG
Size
900 KB, 21 pp.
Copyright Information
In Copyright
Cortex Citation:
J. Christopher Holobar and Andrew Marshall, “E-Reserves Permissions and the Copyright Clearance Center: Process, Efficiency, and Cost,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/research/e-reserves-permissions-the-copyright-clearance-center-process-efficiency-cost.
J. Christopher Holobar and Andrew Marshall, “E-Reserves Permissions and the Copyright Clearance Center: Process, Efficiency, and Cost,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/research/e-reserves-permissions-the-copyright-clearance-center-process-efficiency-cost.