FAQs

For every year that you hold a relevant licence, you are permitted to post five articles on your website at any one time, but you can remove an article and post another as often as you need as long as there are no more than five on your website at any one time....

Please contact the publisher directly to request permission. We are adding publishers all the time, so do check back later....

If you find that you need to use more than five articles at any one time, please contact the publishers of those additional articles directly to clear permission. We would be grateful if you could also let us know, as we are always looking to ensure our licences meet our customers’ needs....

You can remove and replace articles as long as you do not post more than five articles in any one year. If you use your full allowance and renew your licence after a year, you may not remove and replace all ten articles that you are permitted to host, but may only remove and replace the f ive articles you have been allocated for that second year....

You can keep the article on your website for as long as you have a relevant licence. We will notify you in the unlikely circumstance that you are required to take down the article....

Registered students and members of staff. Copies made for students in connection with a Course of Study are subject to specific conditions and reporting requirements....

You can copy up to the following amount for each course (or other individual purpose, such as a staff training event or meeting), whichever is the greater: – 1 whole chapter from a book – 1 whole article from a magazine/journal issue – 1 whole scene from a play – 1 whole paper from a set of conference proceedings – 1 whole report of a single case from a volume of judicial proceedings – 1 whole short story, poem or play (not exceeding 10 pages in length) from an anthology OR 10% of the total publication...

The DCS is available to all HEIs with a CLA HE Licence at no extra cost. Please get in touch if you’re interested in a product demo, or would like to get started....

Many major magazine titles can be copied under our licences – further information about reusing this kind of content here. Some magazines are licensed by NLA Media Access (www.nla.co.uk). You can see if you are covered to copy from any magazine by using our Check Permissions search tool....

You will need to get permission from the map publisher. Standard licences are available from most major map publishing companies such as Street Map and the Ordnance Survey ....

You can make copies when you have one of our licences....

Our business and public administration licences allow unlimited storage on a company intranet provided that the publisher is signed up to our licensing scheme and the publication is covered. To see if a publication is covered under the licence please use the Check Permissions search tool on our website....

If you are a PR firm, marketing agency or similar and you want to provide copies of news and current affairs articles externally to clients, you need CLA’s Media Consultancy Licence....

The CLA Education Licence does not allow you to share copies made under the Licence with anyone outside of your organisation. Please see the User Guidelines and terms and conditions of the CLA Education Licence for the definition of who is considered an authorised user....

You can make copies up to the extent limit (5% / one chapter or article) per course per academic year and per student contingent, i.e. if you want to make copies from the same book for a different course with a different set of students, the full extent limit for the publication applies again to that course and student contingent....

If the students are registered with the FE college, then the 5% / one chapter extent limit applies. The 10% / one chapter extent limit is only available to CLA Higher Education Licensees....

NLA do not specify an extent limit as long as you don’t make any more copies than you need for teaching and learning purposes for a group of students. NLA also currently allow licensed FE colleges free access to the Newspapers for Schools ‘News Library’....

All state-funded schools in the UK hold the CLA Licence through central agreements with regional education bodies. Most Independent schools also hold the licence, but just check with IAPs, SCIS or CLA....

If you do not hold a copy of the original item in your collection you will need to order using the Copyright Fee Paid service. One Copyright Fee Paid copy can be used over multiple courses, as long as the material is still included in CLA’s Licence and is within extent limits....

If you are purchasing a CFP to place in your library stock, then no, but if you intend to copy the material then any purchases made via EHESS for Further Education should be checked against the Check Permissions search tool before ordering to ascertain Licence coverage....

Please contact education.renewals@cla.co.uk...

Please contact customer-services@bl.uk...

No, you will not receive monthly statements, but you can log in to your account online and view your balance and transaction history at any time....

NLA do not specify an extent limit as long as you don’t make any more copies than you need for teaching and learning purposes for a group of students. NLA also currently allow licensed FE colleges free access to the Newspapers for Schools ‘News Library’....

The Education Platform is provided at no additional cost to holders of the CLA Education Licence. Your institution needs to be registered on the Platform, and each teacher or other member of staff needing access will also need to register....

All state-funded schools in the UK hold the CLA Licence through central agreements with regional education bodies. Most Independent schools also hold the licence, but just check with IAPs, SCIS or CLA....

The CLA Education Licence covers individual educational establishments on a single school’s site, and copies can be shared with teachers in an individual school. These copies may not be shared across a group of schools such as a MAT....

Staff and students at your school or college can receive copies made under the licence. The key thing to remember is that the copy must be secure to your institution. It should not be shared outside the school, or put on a public facing website....

The Education Platform is provided at no additional cost to holders of the CLA Education Licence. Your institution needs to be registered on the Platform, and each teacher or other member of staff needing access will also need to register....

Many major magazine titles can be copied under our licences – further information about reusing this kind of content here. Some magazines are licensed by NLA Media Access (www.nla.co.uk). You can see if you are covered to copy from any magazine by using our Check Permissions search tool....

You should contact the original creator of the work if it is unpublished, or the publisher otherwise. If the work was created during the course of employment then the employer will generally be the copyright owner rather than the individual....

You will need to get permission from the map publisher. Standard licences are available from most major map publishing companies such as Street Map and the Ordnance Survey ....

You can make copies when you have one of our licences....

Our business and public administration licences allow unlimited storage on a company intranet provided that the publisher is signed up to our licensing scheme and the publication is covered. To see if a publication is covered under the licence please use the Check Permissions search tool on our website....

Any UK employee in your organisation, including individual consultants or agency workers, can make and receive copies. Any overseas employee in your organisation can receive digital copies (intranet and email) for viewing only (unless your company holds a CLA Multinational Licence)....

Many major magazine titles can be copied under our licences – further information about reusing this kind of content here. Some magazines are licensed by NLA Media Access (www.nla.co.uk). You can see if you are covered to copy from any magazine by using our Check Permissions search tool....

CLA has agreements with similar agencies in most major overseas territories enabling International publications and content to be copied under the CLA Licence. For full details of these overseas agencies and the countries that are covered please visit cla.co.uk...

You should contact the original creator of the work if it is unpublished, or the publisher otherwise. If the work was created during the course of employment then the employer will generally be the copyright owner rather than the individual....

You can make copies when you have one of our licences....