Recommended Borrowing Copyright Rules

The following Borrowing Copyright Rules are the most commonly used rules in the CSU. You are not required to use any particular rule, but they will help with processing copyright. 

The traditional CONTU Rule of 5 is easy to setup in Rapido. With this rule, libraries can stop requests for processing that have been published within the Last five years and the library has Borrowed at least 5 requests for an article or book chapter so far this year (the five requests must also have been published within the last five years.) These requests can then be purchased or marked as Copyright Approved to pay copyright later. 

For libraries in other countries or following different copyright guidelines the rule can be tweaked to be a number other than five. 

Borrowing Copyright Rule Editor

Name: Rule of (X) (normally 5)
Description: A copyright stopping a request after (X) number have already been filled this year. 

Input Parameters

Borrowing Copyright Setup

Copyright Clearance: Checked
Copyright Clearance Management: Blocks Digitization Workflow
Labels: Rule_Of_(X)

The Percent of Work rule stops requests when they are for more than a specified percent of the total work. This rule may also trigger if the patron does not include a page range, so it is good to review before cancelling, though an autocancel Borrowing Mediation Rule may be used with this rule if staff find they consistently cancel requests triggering this rule. 

Borrowing Copyright Rule Editor

Name: Percent of Work
Description: Stops requests for scans for more than (X)% of the work.

Input Parameters

Borrowing Copyright Setup

Copyright Clearance: Checked
Copyright Clearance Management: Blocks Digitization Workflow
Labels: (X)%

The Number of Requests rule adds a label to a request if the same patron requests more than a specified number of chapters or articles from a specific resource. This marks requests where a patron is attempting to request an entire work one chapter at a time. This is used with the Cancelled More Than (X) Borrowing Mediation Rule to automatically cancel the requests. This rule will only add a label while the other rule will cancel requests with the attached label. 

Borrowing Copyright Rule Editor

Name: Number of Requests
Description: Stops requests when a patron requests too many copies.

Input Parameters

Borrowing Copyright Setup

Copyright Clearance: No
Labels: More_Than_(X)