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Copyright & Fair Use

The ODU Library upholds copyright law in all acquisition and use of materials. Members of the ODU Community are responsible for obtaining copyright permissions.

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Special Notice Concerning Harvard Business Review

Please refer to the following statement from HBR Press concerning linking to HBR articles, reproduced here verbatim from the statement supplied by HBR Press in all articles in EBSCOhost databases from HBR:*

Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions, May 2009 Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Publishing Newsletter content on EBSCOhost is licensed for the private individual use of authorized EBSCOhost users. It is not intended for use as assigned course material in academic institutions nor as corporate learning or training materials in businesses. Academic licensees may not use this content in electronic reserves, electronic course packs, persistent linking from syllabi or by any other means of incorporating the content into course resources. Business licensees may not host this content on learning management systems or use persistent linking or other means to incorporate the content into learning management systems. Harvard Business Publishing will be pleased to grant permission to make this content available through such means. For rates and permission, contact permissions@harvardbusiness.org.

* Retrieved February 18, 2016, from one of the articles published in HBR and indexed in EBSCO Business Source Complete.

Legal Disclaimer

Pursuant to Ohio law,** librarians can provide assistance to individuals in locating materials that might be helpful in answering a particular question, but by law are not permitted to interpret legal materials for patrons, give legal advice (e.g., advise as to how a law might apply to a given situation), or assist them in choosing, preparing, or filling out legal forms of any kind.

** The practice of law is, "as generally understood, the doing or performing services in a court of justice, in any matter depending therein, throughout its various stages, and in conformity with the adopted rules of procedure. But in a larger sense it includes legal advice and counsel, and the preparation of legal instruments and contracts by which legal rights are secured, although such matter may or may not be depending in a court.” Land Title Abstract & Trust Co. v. Dworken, 193 N.E. 650 (1934) at 650. 49 Corpus Juris, p. 1313. Cited by the American Bar Association. Retrieved July 5, 2013, at http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/cpr/model-def/model_def_statutes.authcheckdam.pdf.