Printing and copyright when copying
You may not copy the entire contents of a book or magazine, but for private use it is permitted to copy certain parts.
How our printers work
To be able to print on campus, you need a West card and money in your printing account. On the Student Portal you will find information about how our printers work (print, copy, scan) and a price list.
As a member of the public or a student at another university, you can create a guest account at the library to be able to log in to print.hv.se (where you can upload printouts and pay for these).
Note! Keep in mind that you are not allowed to share or copy further material. Learn more about copyright.
Can you print an e-book?
You can usually save pages in the book as pdf files which then can be printed. The number of pages you can save/print varies depending on which book it is. Different databases have different "print quotas", which means that you can print everything of a book with a specific publisher or just 5% with another. Read more about this for each eBook database.
Copying for students
You may not copy the entire contents of a book or newspaper, but for private use it is permitted to copy a limited section (e.g. a chapter of a book), a poem or a newspaper article.
Keep in mind that you can ask the author for permission to use copyrighted material. Tell them in connection with the request that the text or image is to be used in academic contexts, which can make it easier to get permission.
It is permitted to burn your own copy of a purchased CD, copy films from TV, and copy material posted on the Internet with the author's permission.
You can also use the same agreement that the teachers follow. All colleges and universities in Sweden are affiliated with Bonus Copyright Access.
Copying for teachers
There are two licences regarding copying. One for internal copying in the workplace and one regarding copying in connection with teaching.
Workplace licence:
You can are allowed to copy from published books, newspapers and magazines and distribute the copies to other employees.
Teaching licence:
As a teacher you are allowed to
- download
- prints
- scanning
- photocopying
- saving digital copies both on the internal web and on USB
- to save material in e.g. various presentations for internal training/internal conferences.
The basis is that you as teaching staff may copy 15%, but not more than 15 pages from Swedish or foreign published works. Copying can be both analogue and digital.
Note! Material from the databases that the University Library subscribes to is NOT covered by the agreement with Bonus Copyright Access. In such cases, you must read the contract texts for each database.
Read more at Bonus Copyright Access
Questions? Contact Elisabeth Näverå
Keep in mind that...
when copying within the service, you clearly indicate, e.g. on the cover page, that you are copying with reference to the agreement with Bonus Copyright Access.