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Academic Staff: Copyright

Library information for academic staff.

Endeavour College Copyright Resources

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Copyright takedown form

 

In Australia the Copyright Act 1968 allows educators with a Statutory Education Licence to use third party copyright material for educational purposes without having to seek permission from the copyright owner. Endeavour College of Natural Health is licenced under the education copying scheme. 

 

 

Copyright for Curriculum Resources

A “reasonable portion” of the work for each unit of study, which is 10% of the number of pages or one chapter, whichever is the greater. 

If multiple chapters make up less than 10% of the work, we can make multiple chapters available up to the 10% limit. 

More than 1 chapter or 10% can be copied if the work is not available within a reasonable time at an ordinary commercial price (ie the book is out of print). 

One article from an issue of a journal. More than one article per issue may be copied if the works are on the same subject area. 

If you have received approval for the use of content from the copyright owner, this needs to be submitted to the copyright register prior to use.

The copyright owner can be the author, publisher or creator of the content. Written approval must be provided, including any access conditions (eg. time restrictions, document control etc). Teaching and academic staff are encouraged to arranged this directly, however once approval has been received all communication must be sent to the National Librarian for review. 

It is best practice to link to ebooks and journal articles that can be found in the College's library collection. Do not upload ebooks or journal articles directly to the Learning Management System. 

On the LMS digitised book chapters, journal articles and other text works are managed through FLEX to protect the College from breaching copyright. FLEX is a service that helps the library team to provide access to digital resources without inadvertently making copies. 

If you are interested in providing your students access to digital resources through FLEX, please reach out to your liaison librarian.

If the article has been sourced through our Libraries Australia document delivery service, these can usually be added to LMS as they have already been checked for copyright.  However, we’d need to check for any restrictions first.  This information also has to be added to the copyright register and a notice attached before they can be uploaded.

Under the colleges Statutory Educational Licence academics can link to YouTube video clips in their content, with content streamed/played directly from the YouTube website. The recording of YouTube videos in class is prohibited.

Remember:

  • Do not expose the content to further copying or communication by, for example, giving students access to an electronic file that they could copy. Remove the content from the computer or learning management system (LMS) once it is no longer required for educational instruction.
  • Do not use content that is likely to be an infringing copyright.
  • Only use YouTube videos for teaching purposes, not for commercial or promotional activities.
  • Only use what you need.
  • Check that you cannot readily purchase content before using it.