The CLA return
Annually the School has a legal requirement to submit a return to the CLA listing items (book chapters and journal or magazine articles) used in electronic course packs that fall under the CLA licence agreement. (Not links but attached items.) The period covered is: 1 June - 31 May each year. The CLA supply a copy of the official digital record form as a pre-formatted Excel spreadsheet.)
The CLA asks for the ISBN or ISSN for books/journals. You can find the ISSN of a journal by using The A-Z list of E-journals (the first entry in the A-Z list of databases or Browzine. There may be one ISSN for a print version of a journal and another for the e-version.
For ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) you can use the Library catalogue as we need to have the book in stock (or as departmental copy, but not a personal copy) if we are to comply with the CLA licence rules.
The details needed on the CLA spreadsheet are:
*The CLA return asks for a source code for each item.
These are:
A - From Paper original owned by Institution - Items we have scanned ourselves.
B - From Digital original licensed to institution - items added to a course room as a digital copy taken from a database that permits this: JSTOR, BSC etc. (Not Factiva- we can only link to Factiva.)
C - From a copyright fee paid copy - if we do not have a copy of the book or journal and need to buy it copyright cleared from the British Library.
D - From another HEI under Sharing Provision – We do not use this option.