Today I was helping a student look for a New Yorker article titled Wizards by Lorrie Moore, that appeared in the Sept. 12, 2011 issue. Although other articles from the New Yorker appear in full-text in several of our databases, this article was withheld at the request of the rights holder. I have occasionally encountered this same situation with articles from Sports Illustrated.

We were able to find the article freely available on the Internet.

It got me thinking though. Are there certain magazines and journals out there that are more apt to let the author retain the rights to their work. this would be important to know as we continue to cut more print publications and rely on database coverage. Is there anyway I can check this short of comparing each online issue to the articles available online?

Teresa Grimm

Lakeland College: John Esch Library

P.O. Box 359

Sheboygan, WI 53082

grimmtm@lakeland.edu

(920) 565-1038, ext. 2418