Fair Use and Copyright
What is Fair Use?
A graphic explaining Fair Use from the Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication.
Copyright Crash Course
This guide from the University of Texas Austin includes a great section on getting permissions.
Copyright and Your Dissertation or Thesis: Ownership, Fair use, and Your Rights and Responsibilities.
Based on copyright information for dissertation authors from ProQuest and Kenneth D. Crews.
Getting Permissions
- Basics of Getting PermissionA nice summary from Stanford University Libraries.
Getting Ready to Publish?
Learn about your five essential rights and options and think about the future life of your work before you sign your contract.
Open Publishing Guide for Students. brought to you byThe Right to Research Coalition (R2RC).
Open Access and Creative Commons
- Directory of Open Access JournalsIncludes a browsable list by title or subject.
- Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons MediaThe Harvard Law library has put together this guide to help you find and correctly attribute public domain and Creative Commons images for your project or presentation.
- Creative Commons"Provides a set of copyright licenses and tools that create a balance inside the traditional 'all rights reserved' setting that copyright law creates."