{"id":531,"date":"2022-01-20T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/?p=531"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:17:45","slug":"why-we-shouldnt-link-directly-to-pdfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2022\/01\/20\/why-we-shouldnt-link-directly-to-pdfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why shouldn&#8217;t we link directly to PDFs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links to PDFs change more frequently than a journal&#8217;s article landing page, for example. Therefore, linking directly to PDFs will cause links to break often, and the resources offered to students will be of high maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless copyright exceptions and licences permit it, the law will not allow you to redistribute the PDF freely to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/how-about-hyperlinks-and-copyright\/\">What about hyperlinks and copyright?<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/how-do-i-link-to-e-published-articles\/\">How do I link to e-published articles?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/14\/how-do-i-reference-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How do I reference sources?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/22\/how-do-i-find-a-legal-version-of-an-e-publication\/\">How do I find a legal version of an e-publication?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/06\/how-about-hyperlinks-and-copyright\/\">What about hyperlinks and copyright?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:9px\"><strong>The author takes no responsibility for the content of this page, which is not intended as binding legal advice. The views are about copyright in the UK Higher Education sector context.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links to PDFs change more frequently than a journal&#8217;s article landing page, for example. Therefore, linking directly to PDFs will cause links to break often, and the resources offered to students will be of high maintenance. Unless copyright exceptions and licences permit it, the law will not allow you to redistribute the PDF freely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[70,9,7,121,122],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq-on-copyright","tag-exception","tag-licence","tag-linking","tag-pdf","tag-uploading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}