Copyright

Listed below are a variety of resources related to copyright, including publisher information on copyright, alternative permissions, and traditional copyright resources:

SHERPA/RoMEO, which explains publisher copyright policies: "If an academic author wants to put their research online, they are faced with an increasingly complex situation. Evidence shows that citations to articles made openly accessible in this way are taken up and cited more often than research that is simply published in journals. Also some funding agencies require open access archiving for their research, to increase the use of the information generated. However, some publishers prohibit authors from using their own articles in this way. Others allow it, but only under certain conditions, while others are quite happy for authors to show their work in this way. Authors can be left confused: RoMEO helps to clarify the situation."

Creative Commons: an alternative method to copyright permissions: "The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don't always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you're an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons." There are a variety of licenses created by Creative Commons, which allow individuals and institutions to choose how restrictive they wish to make their content.

Fair Use Copyright: This website, created by Stanford University, is an excellent resource for information related to fair use. Included is a copyright overview, an updated blog on copyright issues and news, as well as a host of subsection resources for source materials, Internet sites, and links specifically for higher education institutions.

Copyright Overview: This website, created by Peter Hirtle of Cornell University, includes a comprehensive chart, current as of January 1st, 2012, of all the types of materials, date produced, and when/if it became registered in the United States public domain. Additional notes to links at the bottom of the page are included.