Network Planning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Network Planning

Copyright for Librarians: The Essential Handbook

February 6, 2013

"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.  This book explores…

Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries

October 22, 2012

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) raise significant legal and policy questions for research libraries, which are often asked to support the development of MOOC courses. These questions involve …

Special Collections and Archives in the Digital Age

June 28, 2012

This issue of Research Library Issues (no 279) from the Association of Research Libraries, is focused on legal concerns and evolving professional practices around digitizing special collectio…

Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

April 9, 2012

This UNESCO publication seeks to serve the needs of Open Access (OA) policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level. The overall objective of the Policy Guide…

Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER: How Open Education Resources Unlock the Door to Free Learning

February 7, 2012

This issue brief from the Center for American Progress and EDUCAUSE seeks to provide a substantive understanding of OER and at the same time inform the emerging public debate over their use in p…

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries

February 1, 2012

This guide was published by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who sup…

Myths About Fair Use

August 2, 2011

"Academics potentially enjoy some of the greatest benefits of U.S. copyright law’s doctrine of fair use — which lets them use copyrighted material without permission or payment, under s…

What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should

May 29, 2011

A lawyer and a librarian, Ms. Sims is copyright-program librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She's there to help people on campus and beyond—both users and owners of protec…

Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Libraries

December 20, 2010

This report summarizes research into the current application of fair use to meet the missions of U.S. academic and research libraries. Sixty-five librarians were interviewed confidentially by tel…

Copying Right and Copying Wrong with Web 2.0 Tools in the Teacher Education and Communications Classrooms

November 18, 2010

Understanding the tenets of copyright in general, and in particular, in online communication and publishing with Web 2.0 tools, has become an important part of literacy in today’s Information A…