Start early

Our turnaround time for course packets can be very quick, but it’s best for you to get us your materials three to four weeks ahead of time. The reason for this is that it gives you, the professor, time to pull, replace or reserve an article if permission is denied or if the royalties are too expensive.

Give us a complete bibliography

To ensure that we will be able to produce your packet and submit your copyright request, please provide us with a typed table of contents with complete bibliographical information. This should include:

• Publisher/Rights-holder
• Original Book or Journal Title (no anthologies)
• Author/Editor/Translator
• Chapter/Article name
• Author of Article
• Year of Publication
• Selected Page Numbers

If you don’t have a complete bibliography for your course packet, perhaps your department will hire a work study student to assist your search. (Click here to download one of our bibliography forms in PDF.)

Keep in mind what’s likely to be rejected:

• Excerpts from anthologies (We must have info from the original source.)
• Pages in excess of 10% of a book
• New releases/newly published articles
• Requests with incomplete/inaccurate bibliographic information
• We generally don’t need to request permission for material published prior to 1900.

Oftentimes, if you’ve authored an article, the publisher will give you permission to copy it if you ask. Just ask them to fax you notice of their permission and bring it in.

Bring in the actual books...

...or copies with their title/copyright pages included. Remember to note the page numbers you wish to include.

Contact us

Bring us your questions and concerns. We want this procedure to be as easy as possible for you.