Sharing eCornell Content/Resources
May I share resources from my eCornell courses with others?
Click here to read the eCornell Content Sharing Policy (last revised April 29, 2016).
The resources within eCornell online courses are intended only for the use of our students, so any articles we provide in our courses are subject to copyright protection, and cannot be distributed without permission from the publisher (and the publisher is not eCornell).
So eCornell cannot tell you, as an eCornell student, "you have eCornell's permission to distribute this article," because it is not our permission to give.
If you want to share copies of an article, you need permission from that article's publisher or copyright holder (unless they find that the article is in the public domain). The names of the copyright holder and the journal/publisher are available on each article; we cannot provide direct contact information.
eCornell must obtain permission to reproduce the articles that we provide in our courses under the premise that they are for use by our students. In a few cases, the publication granting us that permission did so with the understanding that a reasonably limited number of people would have access to it (say, no more than 2,000 people per year) and that it would be in a password-protected area (which an eCornell course is).
Depending on the course, some articles are published by either the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Quarterly or the Center For Hospitality Research Reports. That means they are available from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (SHA) website. Potential users need to register and establish a password, but after that, the articles may be available at no cost. So, if you wish to go through the SHA website, you are subject to SHA guidelines, not eCornell copyright restrictions.
