Teaching Resources

The following links lead to UCLA Library and external resources that provide information about and assistance with various aspects of teaching that involve scholarly communication issues. UCLA librarians and library staff also provide services in this area.

Fair Use and Copyright Permission

• U.S. Copyright Law: Fair Use: The text of the fair use provision; Web site created by the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress
• UC Copyright Education: Fair Use: The fair use section of the UC Copyright Education Web site
• Copyright and Fair Use: Extensive informational Web site from the Stanford University Libraries
• Exceptions for Instructors in U.S. Copyright Law: Online tool from the American Library Association
• Fair Use Checklist: from the copyright advisory office at the Columbia University Libraries
• TEACH Act Toolkit: Online resource about the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act, which updates copyright law pertaining to transmissions of performances and displays of copyrighted materials
• Digital Image Rights Computator: Assesses the intellectual property status of a specific image; from the Visual Resources Association
• Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video: from the American University Center for Social Media

Public Domain

• Copyright Term and Public Domain: Chart from the Cornell University Copyright Information Center
• Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law?: Book from Center for the Study of the Public Domain at the Duke University Law School; also available in free digital form

Reserves

• UCLA Library course reserves information for faculty and instructors
• UCLA Library Copyright Policy on Electronic Reserves
• UCLA Library Copyright Policy on In-Library Reserves

Coursepacks and Textbooks

• Make Textbooks Affordable: Website for a campaign by a coalition of public interest research groups, including CALPIRG, and student government associations in fourteen states
• Flat World Knowledge: Company offering peer-reviewed textbooks freely available online; fees charged for printing or downloading vary by format
• University of Minnesota Open Textbook Catalog
• Connexions: An environment in which to collaboratively develop, freely share, and rapidly publish scholarly content online
• Bloomsbury Publishing: Open-access publisher focusing on the humanities and social sciences

Course Management Systems and Copyright

• Know Your Copy Rights: Uses in the Online Classroom/Course Management System: FAQ for faculty and instructors from the Association of Research Libraries

Teaching Students about Copyright and Academic Integrity

• Bruin Success with Less Stress: an interactive online tutorial covering intellectual property, citing sources correctly, and file sharing, created by the UCLA Library
• A Fair(y) Use Tale: a short and entertaining film by Eric Faden, a professor at Bucknell University, that uses fair-use excerpts of Disney characters to explain copyright law
• SPARKY Awards: invites students to create short videos illustrating the value of bringing down barriers to sharing information; given by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition