Using Schatzki's practices framework as a lens, this paper reports on the practices of university students accessing learning resources at a research-intensive university in South Africa. Using a mixed-methods approach, 1001 survey responses and 6 focus groups were analysed to explore how students in three professional disciplines access learning…

Describes a survey of 39 database publishers concerning their policies for downloading, i.e., capture of information into machine-readable format from proprietary databases. Discussion covers fair use principle, long-term storage and reuse, policy enforcement, and per record payment principle. Database publishers surveyed profile of survey…

The practices of media personnel regarding the duplication of copyrighted materials were studied through an opinionnaire designed to elicit responses (yes/no/perhaps) to 24 hypothetical work situations involving the possible duplication of seven categories of copyrighted media: film, filmstrips, videotapes, records, audio tapes, slide/tape series,…