Collaborative Arrangements

Shared library facilities
If your institution shares library facilities with a partner organisation – e.g. an HEI, another local college of Further Education – it’s important to ensure that any publications you use as source copies under the Licence are owned by your institution and not by the partner organisation. Conversely, a partner organisation cannot use publications owned by your institution as source copies under their respective CLA Licence.

Sharing of copies
You can supply a digital copy to another CLA- licensed HE or FE institution – or receive a digital copy from another CLA-licensed HE or FE institution – provided that both institutions own or subscribe to the source publication. If you receive a digital copy under this arrangement, you must treat it as if made by your institution. Please note that you and/or another licensed HEI (or licensed FEI) can’t create a central repository of digital copies. 

This guidance is provided for guidance only. Please note that it does not substitute for the terms and conditions of the Licence, and that, in the event of a conflict between the two, the Licence prevails.