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Can I use this? Introducing: Institutional Repositories The Public Domain
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By Shawnna Parlongo
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Can I use this?Introducing:Institutional RepositoriesThe Public Domain
PURLS vs uploads Very limited educational exemptions in
Canada Only the rights holder may “reproduce,
perform, publish, adapt, translate and telecommunicate a work, and to control the circumstances in which others may do any of these things.” So print sources may not be
scanned/copied and uploaded without prior permission
What about e-resources? Most Library licenses to electronic
resources permit links. Many do NOT permit uploading full-text. Library permitted uses link will tell
you what we’ve been able to negotiate http
://gw2jh3xr2c.search.serialssolutions.com/?SS_searchTypeJournal=yes&V=1.0&L=GW2JH3XR2C&S=AC_T_B&C=library
Avoid linking to material you find on the web if you aren’t sure it was uploaded legally
For more information about PURLS… Check out our online guide:
http://help.library.ubc.ca/help-for/faculty/creating-persistent-urls/
Institutional Repositories (IRs) “An institutional repository (IR) is a
digital collection of a university's intellectual output.
Institutional repositories centralize, preserve, and make accessible the knowledge generated by academic institutions.” (Canadian Association of Research Libraries).
IRs – why care?
Depending on the contract signed, authors may have retained the right to archive their pre-prints. Check the CC license associated with the
IR in question – you may be free to share the archived version of an article.
IR searching efficiently
Why search one IR at a time? UBC materials try cIRcle and/or Summon Non-UBC – try a harvester like:
OAIster OpenDOAR ROAR SHERPA CARL or even Google Scholar
Public Domain "In copyright, the realm of works that
are not protected either because their term of protection has expired, or because they were released by the creator without intention of claiming copyright, is known as the public domain. Works in the public domain can be appropriated by anyone without liability for infringement" (Creative Commons Canada).
What’s in the Public Domain? Public Domain in Canada= Life of creator
plus 50 years
Public Domain in other jurisdictions – particularly US and EU = Life of creator plus 70 years
Beware scholarly editions and translations – not necessarily in the public domain
Where can I find PD items? Internet Archive is a terrific source of works in the public domain and also
hosts the Wayback Machine
Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Canada: digitized literary works
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) The LAC website is a rich source of historical materials – many of which are in the public domain and LAC grants you the ability to reproduce them without prior permission. Other materials, however, are restricted. For more information see: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/notices/016-200-e.html
Hathi Trust "is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries….” Note, only 26% of the Hathi Trust's digitized materials are in the
public domain. Also note, only members of Hathi Trust can download PDFs of works in
the public domain. (UBC is not a member). Non-members can still view public domain materials in their entirety on the Hathi Trust website. The search engine for the collection is available here: http://www.hathitrust.org/
More PD items
U.S. Government Photos and Images: This site provides a searchable database that contains both public domain and copyrighted images
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): This online music library provides "music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access." IMSLP follows Canadian copyright law and its scores are in the public domain in Canada.
Google Books - Not all content discoverable by means of Google Books is in the public domain and therefore you will find many items are not freely available. Note, even if you limit your searches to the items in the "Classics" you may find many public domain titles in editions/versions which are still under copyright (scholarly edns/translations etc.)
Other sources – LINK don’t upload NFB. According to the site's terms of use it is permitted to link to the NFB's videos for
non-commercial purposes (so teaching & research is fine). The Embeddable Content is for personal use only. Teaching is not considered "personal use" so you should not embed (i.e., upload) any NFB content into course shells, professional webpages etc. Fortunately, the NFB's browser URLs are stable for each video title.
PBS: American Experience. This website contains full-length videos from PBS' American Experience documentary series. According to the terms of use for the website you may provide students with a link to the relevant videos on the website, for their personal viewing. Downloading the website content for anything other than personal viewing is not permitted.
American Memory Collection. "Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable in the Library of Congress' American Memory collections." Collections include America at Work, America at Leisure 1894 - 1915; American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920; Life of a City: Early Films of New York 1898-1906; Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 and Origins of American Animation. No explicit statements regarding downloading – better to link.
Civil Rights Digital Library. "The CRDL features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. “ Again, no explicit statements regarding downloads, but the site notes “copyright restrictions” which do not permit commercial use. Better to link.
While….
The ultimate responsibility to check permitted uses/licensing conditions of materials you find online is yours….
You don’t have to go it alone – we can help!
UBC’s copyright site: http://copyright.ubc.ca/ Have a copyright question regarding your
teaching or research at UBC? Post it to: [email protected]
Questions about authors’ rights? See http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ or contact Joy Kirchner at [email protected]
Problems with access to an e-resource? Contact the folks in e-resources help here: http://about.library.ubc.ca/contact-us/ejournal-help/
Anything else? If we don’t know, we can direct you to someone who does: Brian Lamb [email protected]; Shawnna Parlongo [email protected]
