Posting materials electronically on Blackboard or your web page
Faculty who are posting articles, readings, etc. from copyrighted material on Blackboard or faculty web pages should consider the following recommendations:
- Use materials in the public domain freely
- Use materials freely if you own the copyright (e.g., exams, syllabi, notes)
- Whenever possible provide links to full text articles in the Library's databases or to other web sites instead of downloading them onto your own site.
- If you do post copyrighted materials without securing permission, keep these online for one semester only and restrict access to this material to the students in your class. A bibliographic citation and notice of copyright should appear on the first page of each item.
- When in doubt, seek permission.
