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Digital Resources (links)

The links below can help you find additional resources for available materials, assistance in obtaining permission to use material, and information about generally acceptable practices regarding the use of copyrighted materials.

AlouetteCanada
http://www.alouettecanada.ca/
The goal of AlouetteCanada is to create, disseminate, preserve and sustain the knowledge base of Canadian memory organizations in digital form, for the purpose of benefiting all Canadians.

Archive.org
http://www.archive.org
Large archive of audio, video, film, texts, podcasts, websites, and software, many of which are licensed under Creative Commons or are in the Public Domain. Registered users can also upload their own materials and link to them from their personal websites.

Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
http://caut.ca/
A wide range of serives and advice are available to member associations.

Canadian Copyright Act (CCA)
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/index.html

Related: Bill C-11 (Copyright Modernization Act) http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=5144516&File=9

Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/Home
Outlines Canadian copyright issues in a straightforward, practical voice.

CARFAC
http://www.carfac.ca
Non-profit organization representing professional Canadian visual artists' voices to government.

Connexions
http://cnx.org/
A non-profit organization providing open education resources. Designed to allow the collaborative development and free availability of material, it is governed by Creative Commons licenses. Content is available from all over the world and users may modify the material for any purpose (but must also be willing to share information).

Copyright Clearance Center
http://www.copyright.com/content/cc3/en.html
Provides licenses for in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, images, blogs and ebooks.

Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. Copyright owners provide users with varying degrees of access to their works (i.e. the author of a book can put it online under a CC license that allows users the freedom to copy all or part of that book). The organization has released several copyright licenses which, depending on the one chosen, restrict only certain rights (or none) of the work.

Related: Here is a clever cartoon-style depiction on how to use Creative Commons licenses http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Spectrumofrights_Comic1

D Space
http://www.dspace.org/
An open-source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://www.doaj.org/
Over 3000 scientific and scholarly journals in the directory, with over 1000 searchable by article.

Educational Rights Collective of Canada (ERCC)
http://www.ercc.ca/ercc_welcome.html

Free Archive of Life Sciences Journals
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Government of Canada
http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/home.html
Most federal government publications can be copied without having to obtain permission.

Images Canada
http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html
Database of archival images from Canadian libraries and museums that can be used in non-commercial settings in accordance with their pre-authorized license.

iTunes U
https://twitter.com/iTunesU
Follow iTunesU on twitter for official updates from iTunes U, including featured courses from leading education institutions and noteworthy instructors.

Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/notices/016-200-e.html?PHPSESSID=334iius1qrunnh9se1e194tt93

Library and Archives Canada Learning Centre
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/education/index-e.html
Learning resources for teachers and students. Many Canadian books, images, and professional development tools can be accessed here.

LibriVox
http://librivox.org/
Audio readings of Public Domain books.

National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/home.php
Reproduction of NFB materials for personal or public non-commercial use is permitted, provided certain conditions are met (click here for more information). Commercial use requires written permission of the NFB.

Open Content Alliance
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
International collaboration to archive multilingual text and multimedia.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Over 39,000 digitized books from the Public Domain.

SOCAN
http://www.socan.ca/
Canadian copyright collective that administers performing rights of more than 100,000 composer, author and music publisher members

Springer Science & Business Media
http://www.springer.com/open+access?SGWID=0-169302-0-0-0
Provision of scientific and professional open access journals. Springer Images also has an available iPhone app

Thesis Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html
Large repository of Canadian theses and dissertations.

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Offers a variety of material for educational use. Its policy is "user beware". Please follow the guidelines for citing sources.

Copyright websites at other "opt-out" universities:

Athabasca University
http://cldd.athabascau.ca/services/copyright.php

Carleton University
http://www.library.carleton.ca/copyright

Memorial University
http://www.mun.ca/copyright/

Mount Royal University
http://www.mtroyal.ca/Library/Research/Copyright/index.htm

Queen's University
http://library.queensu.ca/copyright

Royal Roads University
http://library.royalroads.ca/copyright-office

Trent University
http://guides.lib.trentu.ca/copyright

University of British Columbia
http://copyright.ubc.ca/

University of Guelph
http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/about/policies/copyright.cfm

University of New Brunswick
http://www.lib.unb.ca/copyright/

University of Northern British Columbia
http://libguides.unbc.ca/copyright

University of Waterloo
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/copyright/index.html

University of Windsor
http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/leddy/leddy.nsf/Copyright!OpenForm

York University
http://copyright.info.yorku.ca/

Note: The information obtained from or through this site does not constitute legal advice, but is provided as guidelines for using works for educational purposes.

All information found on the University of Saskatchewan Copyright website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License.