Creating Links to Library Content: Copyright and Fair Use

Instructions on how to create a permanent URL to take students directly to an article in a library subscribed database. Linking means no copy, therefore no copyright issue. (Plus, the library looks at access stats when it's time for subscription renewals to see what resources are being used.)

University of Minnesota Libraries' copyright information and education. Includes useful tools: Thinking Through Fair Use and Copyright Decision Map.

The Code is intended to be a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education.

Printable Fair Use Checklist.

Online tool for determining if fair use applies to intended use; similar to the Fair Use Checklist.

Fair use checklist is especially useful.
Includes TEACH Act checklist for Distance Education.

How to label flexible copyright for creative work

Information about copyright and intellectual property in the news.

Grain of salt: good overview, but takes conservative viewpoint (CCC licenses journal permissions).

FAQ from the American Library Association about using videos in the classroom.

University of Rhode Island. Renee Hobbs. Additional resources for Code of Best Practices for Media Literacy Education.

Best Practices overview in PDF format.

Curriculum for teaching kids and teens about copyright and fair use. Electronic Freedom Foundation's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.

Z. Rubin, Chronicle of Higher Education