Q. Can the author give me permission to make available more than 10% or one chapter of a work on e-Reserves?

NUS Libraries does not permit placing more than a "reasonable portion" of a work on e-Reserves. 

The author of a work might not own the copyright which subsists within a work because:-

• the author might have assigned the copyright in the work to the publisher when he published the book and would not be able to give permission;
• under copyright law, the publisher and not the author has the exclusive right to make a reproduction of a published edition. 

See: What constitutes a "reasonable portion" for copying? 

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