Reserves Print Guidelines

At the request of a faculty, photocopies of articles or chapters of books may be placed on reserve in compliance with Section 107 of the Copyright Act on Fair Use.

Instructors are responsible for fair use of copyrighted reserves materials. Before you place copyrighted materials on reserve, please refer to Copyright Guidelines for Print Reserves. For complete information on Copyright visit the U.S. Copyright Office homepage or have a look at this great web page: Crash Course in Copyright.

The following COCC Library Reserve Guidelines are set to clarify what may constitute lawful uses of copyrighted material

Guidelines:

There are no copyright restrictions for the use of whole books, which can be placed on the reserve shelves without copyright permission. The Copyright law applies only to those parts of a book that are reproduced (copied) for class use.
In general, copyright restrictions for educational use do not apply on works that fall under the definition of "public domain" such as: 1) unpublished works; 2) published works with expired copyright, such as publications more than 75 years old; and 3) U.S. Government publications.
The library will not accept anthologies of readings prepared by an instructor for Print Reserves, unless there is a proof of Copyright permission. Other materials not accepted for Print Reserve include coursepacks and photocopies of consumable materials (workbooks, exercises, standardized tests, etc.) or journal articles which have been included in a coursepack that students are expected to purchase.
It is advisable that the amount of material copied be limited to items such as single articles or chapters of books; a short story, short essay, or short poem; charts, graphs, and illustrations, or other similar small parts of a work (please note: not more than one short poem, article, story, essay or two excerpts may be copied from the same author, nor more than three from the same collective work or periodical volume during one class term).
The number of copies of a single item placed on Print Reserve should be reasonable in light of the number of students enrolled and the difficulty or timing of the assignment. In general, the library advises one copy for every 10-15 students, up to a limit of 3 copies.
Copied materials placed on Print Reserve must be owned by the faculty submitting them or by the library. If an original is not owned by the instructor or the library, the instructor is responsible for obtaining copyright permission.
Copyrighted Print Reserve material should contain a copyright notice along with a full citation and attributions to the original source.
Copies of reserve materials are considered to be the instructor's property and are returned at the end of each term.
The first use of a copied material by a particular instructor for a particular course is generally treated as "fair use". Any subsequent use of this same material by that same instructor for that same course requires permission from the copyright holder.
Student work from current or past terms is protected under federal law, FERPA (Family Educational Right to Privacy Act), and college policy. Instructors who place on reserve originals or copies of student work, including video or audio cassettes of student performances, with personally identifying material on them (e.g.; names, grades, images), must secure a written permission from that student. If the name, grade, or image appears on the work, instructors should document that the student has been made aware of this before he/she signed the permission statement.

Removing names or other identifiers from student work does not relieve the instructor from copyright responsibility: instructors should always obtain the student's permission.

Print Reserve materials are accessible only by faculty name or course name.

Faculty members who are unsure about what constitutes permissible copying, may consult the Guidelines for Classroom Copying of Books and Periodicals agreed to by the Association of American Publishers and The Author's League of America. These guidelines set minimum standards for meeting the copyright law requirements. Although some educators have found them restrictive, these guidelines can help determine whether certain practices are compliant with the law.

Obtaining Permission:
For information on how you may obtain copyright permission for reserves items visit the web page: Getting Permission
(http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/permissn.htm)