Library Access and Collections have had a conversation with Standards New Zealand about uploading standards on to Learn.
First the bad news: no standard, whole or part, may be distributed electronically (and putting up a PDF in Learn is considered to be doing this) without a licence.
Below is what SNZ have confirmed about copying from standards under the Act:
As you mention, under section 44 of the Copyright Act 1994 there are provisions for educational copying. For example, you are permitted to make a single photocopy of material for use in a course if you are giving a lesson at an education establishment, or if you are making multiple photocopies but only copying a small part of the copyright material (3% or max 3 pages).
However, there is good news. Standards New Zealand are happy to offer individual licences for each time a lecturer wants to upload a standard, or part thereof, into Learn (down to specific graphs/tables) – limited to those standards for which SNZ are permitted to provide in this way (so it might rule out a number of international standards). They will also supply a clear copy of the parts required which also contain the licence information.
If you have lecturers that are interested in using standards on Learn, feel free to contact us and we can look into getting the licences for them. Helen has also confirmed the library is happy to pay for and monitor these licences.
Ngā mihi
Simon
I for example will not recommend to lecturers to put any part of a standard on to learn. I suggest and will carry to recommending that all standards are accessed via the databases. a 3% part of a standard would not suitable in most cases.
I understand that the standards organisations do not allow deep linking, but providing the link to our standards database top level and then following up with how to navigate will be more effective.
If the standards are used via the databases the students can get the whole standard not just the part.
The library gets a statistic on use (and therefore likely to retain in future)
The student learning outcome will be that they now have knowledge of the standards database.
The subject librarians from Engineering are always willing to do a 5 min live presentation in class.
“a statistic on use” – Kaitiakitanga in practice!