ISS Policies

Course Reserve Guidelines and Copyright Information

Course Reserves make it possible for instructors to “reserve” one or two copies of an item at the circulation desk in order to share them with all the students taking their course. However, these materials must be made available within the provisions and constraints of copyright law.

Guidelines for electronic reserves are based on the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, Section 107, and on the draft Electronic Reserves Guidelines that were developed during the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) 1994 - 1998.

For additional information on U.S. Copyright Law see the U.S. Copyright Office Web site at http://www.loc.gov/copyright or the Indiana University Web site at http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/quickguide.htm .

For additional information on copyright law for electronic reserves see the University of Texas System Web site at http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm

Course Reserve Guidelines

1. Items placed on reserve should be required readings. Please submit a copy of your syllabus along with your materials for reserve. This helps in assisting student with locating reserve items.

2. Please read the guidelines on copyright below if you wish to place photocopies on reserve. To place over 5 different photocopies on reserve, please bind them together in a folder. Books and media items may also be placed on reserve.

3. All reserve items will be taken off of reserve at the end of each semester and an attempt will be made to return them to the instructor via campus mail. To ensure that the reserve shelf is up-to-date, instructors must contact the Circulation Staff at least one week prior to the end of the semester, if they wish to keep an item on reserve for an additional semester. If you wish to make other pick-up arrangements, please specify this on the reserve form or contact us at least one week prior to the “take off reserve” date you have specified on the reserve form or by the end of the semester, whichever is sooner.

4. We will inform the instructor of how many check-outs an item received while on reserve. Items with few or no check-outs should not be resubmitted for reserve.

Guidelines for ERes at California Lutheran University

  1. In accordance with copyright law, materials protected by copyright law will be made available only to CLU students enrolled in that course. Access will be terminated at the end of the semester.
  2. Items that do not require copyright permission (are not copyright protected) are:
    1. Exams, homework solutions
    2. Lecture notes and syllabi
    3. U.S. Government publications
    4. Works in the public domain (see http://www.unc.edu/%7Eunclng/public-d.htm for a chart)
  3. Materials that fall under "fair use" do not require copyright permission, but they do require a notice of copyright (Section 108 United States Code Title 17).* These materials should also include an appropriate citation. These items are:
    a. A single article from a journal or periodical
    b. A single chapter from a book
    c. A short story, essay or poem from a collected work
    d. A short excerpt (no more than 10% of the total) of a longer work, not divided into chapters or articles
    e. Material where the instructor is the copyright holder
  4. Materials that do not fall within "fair use" will require copyright permission. These items are:
    a. An article from a journal or periodical that is to be used for more than one semester, or articles that are used for an individual course taught in multiple sections by many instructors.
    b. More than one article from a journal or periodical issue
    c. A chapter of a book used for more than one semester.
    d. Multiple chapters of a book
  5. Library staff will be happy to assist faculty in determining if CLU has access to an article via one of its electronic databases, enabling the use of a link on your ERes site, where we have already been granted copyright permission and pay royalty fees. These links may stay on a page indefinitely.
    *Sample notices of copyright: "Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproduction of copyright materials" or "This material may be protected by copyright."

 

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