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Documentation of the results of two typical requests an instructor might make of a publisher while creating an online course. "The first was to store an electronic version of a journal article, to which we subscribe, on a secure password protected server. The second was to reproduce extracts of published material on password protected web pages and CD ROM." The results were to be predicted: "Publishers' responses were highly variable to the requests for access to published material... Considerable resource costs were incurred by the exercise."

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