Academic Copyright Information
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Copyright and Fair Use Case Law
Academic Publishers vs. Georgia State University - Lawsuit filed April 15, 2008
Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko's Graphics Corp. - 758 F.Supp. 1522 (S.D.N.Y. 1991)
Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services, INC. - No. 94-1778 6th Cir. 1996 decision vacated
Key Court Case Summaries on Fair Use
Columbia University
Copyright Advisory Office - Columbia University Libraries / Information Services
Fair Use Checklist
Copyright Scenarios
Court Case Summaries - Regarding Fair Use
Fair Use Resources
Cornell University
Copyright Information Center
Cornell Copyright Policies, Guidance, and Policy Interpretations
Cornell Electronic Course Content Copyright Guidelines - Press release
Cornell Electronic Course Content Copyright Guidelines - (PDF)
Course Reserves Copyright Guidelines - (PDF)
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Copyright Resources
Cornell Copyright Decision Tree - (PDF)
Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Copyright Management Center
Fair-Use Issues
Fair-Use: Overview and Meaning for Higher Education
Fair-Use Guidelines
Key Court Case Summaries on Fair Use
Teach Act and Distance Learning
North Carolina State University
Intellectual Property
Student Privacy Law (FERPA)
Penn State Uni
"Open access will revolutionize 21st century knowledge work and accelerate the diffusion of ideas and evidence that support just in time learning and the evolution of thinking in a number of disciplines."
Daniel Pesut
(Indiana University School of Nursing, USA)
They are an outstanding source of medical and scientific information."
Jeffrey M. Weinberg
(St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, USA)
"Open
access journals are extremely useful for graduate students,
investigators and all other interested persons to read important
scientific articles and subscribe scientific journals. Indeed,
the research articles span a wide range of area and of high
quality. This is specially a must for researchers belonging
to institutions with limited library facility and funding
to subscribe scientific journals."
Debomoy K. Lahiri
(Indiana University School of Medicine, USA)
"Open access journals represent a major break-through in publishing.
They provide easy access to the latest research on a wide
variety of issues. Relevant and timely articles are made available
in a fraction of the time taken by more conventional publishers. Articles are of uniformly high quality and written by the world's leading authorities."
Robert Looney
(Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
"Not only do open access journals greatly improve the access
to high quality information for scientists in the developing
world, it also provides extra exposure for our papers."
J. Ferwerda
(University of Oxford, UK)
"In principle, all scientific journals should have open access, as should be science itself.
"The widest possible diffusion of information is critical
for the advancement of science. In this perspective, open
access journals are instrumental in fostering researches and
achievements."
Alessandro Laviano
(Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy)
"Open access journals are probably one of the most important
contributions to promote and diffuse science worldwide."
Jaime Sampaio
(University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
"Open access journals make up a new and rather revolutionary
way to scientific publication. This option opens several quite
interesting possibilities to disseminate openly and freely
new knowledge and even to facilitate interpersonal communication
among scientists."
Eduardo A. Castro
(INIFTA, Argentina)
"Open access journals are freely available online throughout the world, for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use. The articles published in the open access journals are high quality and cover a wide range of fields."
Kenji Hashimoto
(Chiba University, Japan)
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databases. I read Open Access journals to keep abreast of
the recent development in my field of study."
Daniel Shek
(Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)