Appropriate journal use in the modern age

"The sheer variety of ways to use AJP means that there are right and wrong ways to use it—or at least, better ways and worse ways. That's because the way you access a journal nowadays can have unforeseen consequences. If you're not careful, using AJP incorrectly may even jeopardize your access to it! Let me explain....In the old days, I would typically go to the library and make however many photocopies were needed and then pass them out in class. But it is much more convenient today to simply download the PDF and either email it to the class or upload it to a course-management web site from which the students can download it themselves. But this procedure is potentially problematic and is precisely what you should not do, no matter how tempting it might be. Why? Because when you follow this procedure, your library will record only your access to AJP (assuming you used an institutional subscription to access the journal). An entire classroom full of students will end up accessing the journal and yet none of these uses will get counted in the library usage statistics. [And low usage statistics could lead librarians to cancel the subscription.]...So how should you assign such a reading to students? The key is to have the students download the article themselves directly through the library's access portal...."