The Library has recently signed an Unlimited Catalog Access (UCA) agreement with Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). Under the agreement, academic staff will now be able to access case studies, journal articles from Harvard Business Review, book chapters and other resources in the HBP Catalogue. If they wish to use this content for teaching they can add links to the resources in LEARN.

We are the first university in New Zealand to have an agreement of this type. Until now we have not been able to create links to Harvard Business Review in LEARN because our Business Source Complete subscription does not include the right to use the articles for course work. We were also aware that some academics were purchasing case studies for course work from their own departmental funds.

Setting up the UCA agreement has been a collaborative effort, involving Janette and Cuiying from Academic Liaison, Nick and Gregor from E-learning, Paul Nicholls and Jim Thorpe from ITS Application Support, and Tim, Helen and myself from Library Access and Collections.

Peter H