Copyright

• Link to the texts if possible rather than making an electronic copy available to students. Linking to materials is ordinarily not a violation of copyright but rather a technological instruction for locating materials. If you are using an article, e-book, or video from one of the Clark Memorial Library databases, please link to it rather than uploading it to your Blackboard course site. Also, you must create a proxied link. Information for creating a proxied link is below. If you do not do this, students will be unable to access this when they are not on the SSU campus.
• If copying a text, use no more than is needed to serve your purpose.
• Avoid copying materials created and marketed primarily for use in courses such as the one at hand (e.g. a textbook, workbook, or anthology designed for the course). Use of more than a brief excerpt from such works on digital networks is unlikely to be transformative and therefore unlikely to be a fair use.
• Make sure that the materials serve a pedagogical purpose; do not use as entertainment.
• Place the materials in the context of the course, explaining why they were chosen and what they are intended to illustrate. Recontextualize the materials when appropriate through the addition of study questions, commentary, criticism, annotation, and student reactions.
• Limit access to the materials to students enrolled in the course.
• Notify students that the materials are being made available for teaching, study, and research only.
• For each item, provide an acknowledgement of the source, copyright, and publisher.

Adapted from "Fair Use and Copyright for Online Education" by University of Rhode Island University Libraries, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License "Tips for Online Fair Use" is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Marla Beebe.