Most materials you might want to use in teaching will be covered by copyright. As a result, permission from copyright holders will normally be needed before their material can be used for teaching (as distinct from your own private study). However, teaching is one of the exceptions to copyright, and the Intellectual Property Office (IPO)'s paper, Exceptions to copyright: Education and Teaching, gives guidance on when permission is not needed.
Examples of reasonable use that would not require permission include displaying webpages in class or writing short quotes on a whiteboard. However, making hard or electronic copies of copyrighted material available to students is likely to need permission.
So, attaching articles or books or any other copyrighted material to the Hub, or giving out similar things as printouts in class is likely to be infringing copyright, unless permission has been given. However, you can link to these materials online instead, whilst giving due accreditation along with the link. All BPP library e-resources, which can be found on the library website, can be shared in this way.
Sometimes people put material online without the copyright holder's permission. You should avoid linking to material that has likely been put online illegitimately.
Even if the author of an article has made it available on an open website, that is not a guarantee that the copyright holder's permission has been given. Very often copyright may in fact be held by the institution where the research was carried out, or by the journal that originally published the research.
Open access articles are fine to link to even if BPP Library does not subscribe to the journal itself. But these should still be credited fully. Also, very often open access articles are created under a creative commons licence, and so can even be downloaded or printed out to be be shared with students.
You can request materials by emailing library@bpp.com. We try to ensure that all resources are available electronically, however restrictions in licensing means this is not always possible. The library team can advise on this.
Core texts for the Business and Law Schools are provided through the Schools to ensure that each student receives a copy. Module developers should contact library@bpp.com for advice on which publishers to use.