FACULTY TOOLKIT

Faculty
Support
Open Educational
Resources

Course Resources
& Copyright
Outreach
Materials

FACULTY SUPPORT

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing, as well as for research purposes.

OCLS librarians have curated a list of Open Educational Resources collections and repositories.

View our OER list.

COURSE RESOURCES

This section will answer these questions and more.

What materials can I link in my Brightspace course?
How much of a book can be used in my course?

Interlibrary Loan

Students cannot use Interlibrary Loan to obtain required textbooks or articles.

Copyright & Fair Use

Print Books

U.S. Copyright law does not allow us to upload or embed PDF files from books into the course.
Courts previously endorsed the 10% rule as fair use.
For more information, read What is the 10% rule in copyright? by David Swisher (IWU N&G Senior Learning Experience Designer).
For print books, OCLS needs to have a copy of the book on our reserve bookshelf.
Pages (10% of the book or less) are scanned and kept by OCLS.
Students will need to contact OCLS to request the pages.

Library Resources

Articles available through OCLS databases are allowed to be directly permalinked in the course.
If you would like a permalink for an OCLS database resource, fill out the Course Resources Request form.

Fair Use

Fair use permits a party to use a copyrighted work without the copyright owner's permission for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.
It is best to ALWAYS ask for permission.
For more information, read What is "fair use" under US copyright law? by David Swisher (IWU N&G Senior Learning Experience Designer).

Copyrights & Fair Use

By Shawn Matter, IWU University Counsel

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