Library guides: Copyright: Newspapers

Newspapers

City St George's has a licence with the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA). This permits staff to distribute copies of newspaper articles

to students for their educational and instructional purposes and
to members of staff to use "internally" (within City).

The NLA licence covers all national newspapers for photocopying and (except for the Financial Times) scanning. There is a summary below of what copying is permitted.

Photocopying and scanning

Photocopying

It is permissible to photocopy from the hard copy versions of all those national and international newspapers on the NLA list. (PDF, 110 KB).

Scanning

It is permissible to scan articles from hard copy versions of most national and international newspapers on the NLA list above and make them available to students via Moodle. The only exception is the Financial Times, which does not allow digital copying of complete articles; this includes copying of articles downloaded from City's digital subscription. However, copying up to 30 words of an article, or producing a summary in your own words of not more than 30 words are both permitted, to put on Moodle. In both cases there must be a link to the article included.

Digital copying from databases

Our NLA Licence does not authorise distribution of material which has been obtained from database providers, for example:

Factiva
Offers full text from a range of sources including international newspapers, trade publications and magazines. Many titles have a 20 year archive and content is updated daily, making it useful for business, industry news and reports.
Please note that articles generally have no formatting or images.
Limitation
- The length of time to store a single copy of downloaded materials from this resource in machine readable form is limited to 30 days only.
- Text data mining is not permitted within our Factiva UK licence.
Nexis UK
Full-text coverage of national, regional and international news from a range of sources including newswires. Updated daily and with many titles having a 20 year archive, useful for current affairs and seeing how topics have been reported.
Articles generally have no formatting or images.
Limitation
- Users may print and download for personal use only single copies of up to ten documents in Full Text Format from the results of one search.
- Users are prohibited from downloading substantial parts of the database and materials cannot be stored for longer than 90 days.
- Nexis cannot be used for any non-academic purposes and text data mining is not permitted.
- The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 90 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
- For further information please see Library Services’ Online Resource Policy.

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