Universal Design, Copyright, and Fair Use

E-Reserves: A CSU Success Story

Jesse Hausler, Assistive Technology Resource Center, ACCESS ProjectCristi MacWaters, Interliberary Loan/Electronic Reserves Coordinator

Background Story: ATRC’s Goals for E-Reserves

• Short Term Goals– Clean, Readable Scans– Enable students to use OCR software– Interact with Assistive Technology

• Long Term Goals – OCR for all Electronic Reserves– PDF tags for Accessibility

ILL’s Electronic Reserve Process

Clean, Readable ScansOCR for all Electronic ReservesPDF tags for AccessibilityCompliance with Copyright and Fair Use

Regulations

Defining UDL

• Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles and techniques for creating inclusive classroom instruction and accessible course materials.

teaching

technology

What Makes a PDF Document Universally Designed?

• Accessibility• Search-ability• Select-ability for Copy and Paste• Bookmarks or an Interactive TOC• Text to Speech capability

Let’s Look at Scanned PDFs

• Scanned PDF• Scanned PDF with Optical Character

Recognition• Scanned PDF with OCR and Tags added

Scanned PDF Results

Accessi

bility

Searc

h-Abilit

y

Copy/Paste

Bookmarks

Text

to Speech

Scanned PDF

Scanned PDF with OCR

OCR and Tags

UDL Modules

• Teaching• Course Materials– Microsoft Word

• Styles and Headings• Images

– Adobe PDF– HTML– E-Text

• http://accessproject.colostate.edu

Copyright Basics for Electronic Reserves

Morgan Library Electronic Reserves

Services provided by Electronic Reserve

• Accessible copies• Linking documents for licensed materials• Dark archive for reuse in future semesters

Foundation of Copyright for ER:

• Section 107 of the Copyright law permits multiple copies for classroom use IF it meets the 4 factors of Fair Use.

• Purpose/character of the use • Nature of the work• Amount of the portion used in relation to the whole • Effect on market value

Copyright Guidelines for Electronic Reserve

• Scan item with title page and copyright info• No more than one book chapter or article

from a journal issue per class• Don’t combine several items from various

sources into one new ER reading

Copyright Guidelines for Electronic Reserve

• Some electronic journal licenses may forbid placing the article on ER. We will create links instead

• If items are reused for more than one semester, copyright royalties may be required.

• Link to websites or webpages, don’t copy and paste into a new document

What about Electronic Journals from the library’s collection?

• Licensing trumps fair use• Some publishers do not allow their material to

be displayed in an electronic reserve system.• Safest to link to the article via the database.

Special Circumstances

• Conference papers---get author(s) written permission to display, perhaps they will supply a more authoritative version than you have.

Special Circumstances

• Student papers---you can not use these in future classes without permission of the student author.

“The ownership of student works created in the course of academic requirements shall be with the student and the University may retain the work as needed for its instructional or record-keeping purposes. The University and the Members may not use the work in any other manner without the written consent of the student.”

What if….I need MORE than this?

• Link to a web resource (or ask ER staff to create a linking document for you)

• Multiple chapters? Place the book on print reserve. This can be either a CSU owned book or a personal copy.

• Place it on RamCT. You become responsible for copyright compliance.