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Juan-Carlos Fernández-Molina; Fernando Esteban de la Rosa – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Text and data mining activities -- that is, the automated processing of digital materials to uncover new knowledge -- have become more frequent in all areas of scientific research. Because they require a massive use of copyrighted work, there are evident conflicts with copyright legislation. Countries at the forefront of research and development…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Data, Legislation, Foreign Countries
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Cantrell, Melissa H.; Wipperman, Sarah – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Author contracts in scholarly publishing serve to outline the rights and permissions for each party in the use and redistribution of a work throughout the life of its copyright term. Although rights and licensing expectations for open access publishing--the "open access ethos"--have been detailed in the Budapest Declaration, Plan S…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authors, Publishing Industry, Scholarship
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Lauren McGaw – Journal of Access Services, 2024
In 2018, the University of Winnipeg Library introduced the Syllabus Service to improve the course reserves submission process. This initiative has allowed library staff to proactively support copyright in e-reserves and provided opportunities to improve accessibility for students. The service has also encouraged faculty and instructor use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Copyrights, Information Systems
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Hortsch, Michael – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
With anatomical education becoming a global endeavor, free online resources offered via the Internet or other electronic venues are of increasing importance for teaching and learning communities worldwide. Students and instructors from developing countries, often limited in access to modern instructional resources by infrastructural and financial…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Web Sites, Open Source Technology, Internet
Sara Rachel Benson; Melissa Ocepek – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
Copyright intersects with every field of Library and Information Science (LIS) from archival and preservation practices to reference services and academic librarianship. However, copyright instruction is still lacking in many Information Science programs across the country (Cross & Edwards, 2011; Schmidt & English, 2015). The sudden move…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Literacy, Copyrights, Emotional Response
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Haggerty, Kenneth; Harrington, Caitlin; Scott, Rachel E. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
This usability study investigates how instructors in a university setting integrate resources into their Learning Management System (LMS) course shells and explores barriers and incentives for doing so. Findings suggest that obstacles encountered while appropriately incorporating licensed library resources in a D2L LMS are substantial. Although…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Integrated Learning Systems, Barriers, Motivation
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Tmava, Ahmet Meti – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Open Access Repositories (OARs) are viewed as a new channel of scholarly communication and a way for scholars to disseminate their work faster to a broader audience. Finding a solution to low faculty participation in OARs is an intricate task that requires a deeper understanding of faculty perceptions of OARs. Previous studies have investigated…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Access to Information, Archives, Faculty Publishing
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Sitdikova, Roza Iosifovna; Starostina, Ekaterina Sergeevna; Kashapova, Elvina Rustemovna; Baryshev, Sergey Alexandrovich – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Copyright is a legal term that defines the rights that are given to the owners of the works in return for their intellectual and artistic works (according to the World Intellectual Property Organization). It establishes an appropriate balance between the benefits of the owner of the work and the common good. Apart from the exclusive rights of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Federal Legislation
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Adu, Theresa L.; van der Walt, Thomas B. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
A theoretical framework can offer an important means for understanding and delineating the complex issues of copyright law and its ramifications facing researchers and academic libraries. This study draws lessons from the literature on how copyright theories can inform practice in libraries. It describes strengths and weaknesses in each of the…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Laws, Legislation, Academic Libraries
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Khair, Muhamad Helmi Muhamad; Hashim, Haswira Nor Mohamad – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
Orphan works are works that are still protected by copyright and whose owners cannot be identified or located by prospective users for copyright clearance. Many countries have addressed this issue since the emergence of the problem, and it remains a legitimate subject of inquiry in this present day. However, Malaysia is yet to initiate public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Copyrights, Authors, Laws
Margarita Pérez-Pulido; Aurora González-Teruel – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
In European universities, teaching ethics has acquired special relevance with the Bologna Process and changes in curriculum. In Spain, the White Book of the Degree in Information and Documentation incorporates ethics as a specific competence, through the combination of ethical, social, and legal content, as a transversal competence. In this…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Information Science Education, Foreign Countries
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Gang Zhao; Hui He; Bingbing Di; Qingqing Guo – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
With the rapid development of information technology, various online education platforms support the sharing of digital educational resources. Because digital educational resources are simple to duplicate and disseminate quickly, there exists copyright infringement, which threatens the interests of copyright owners. In addition, the existing…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Advancement, Copyrights
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Ovadia, Steven – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
As open educational resources (OER) becomes a more established concept, its growth and continued success not only center around the creation of new content but also depend upon the development and evolution of existing content, licenses permitting. The evolution of and persistent access to existing content requires easily editable works and the…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Shared Resources and Services, Editing, Technical Support
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Sergiadis, Ashley D. R. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2019
East Tennessee State University developed a workflow to add journal publications to their institutional repository and faculty profiles using three tools: Zotero for entering metadata, SHERPA/RoMEO for checking copyright permissions, and Unpaywall for locating full-text documents. This study evaluates the availability and accuracy of the…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Library Materials, Academic Libraries, Metadata
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Chisita, Collence Takaingenhamo; Chiparausha, Blessing – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2021
The article explores the recent experiences encountered by the Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) Library, Zimbabwe in the daily operations of its institutional repository (IR) with emphasis on security and ethical issues. It examines the present scenario in the management of the IR. BUSE Library set up an IR to archive and enable…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Archives, Academic Libraries
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