By Shawnna Parlongo

1. Can I use
this?
Introducing:
Institutional Repositories
The Public Domain

2. PURLS vs uploads
 Very limited educational exemptions in
Canada
 Only the rights holder may “reproduce,
perform, publish, adapt, translate and
telecommunicate a work, and to control
the circumstances in which others may do
any of these things.”
 So print sources may not be
scanned/copied and uploaded without
prior permission

3. What about e-resources?
 Most Library licenses to electronic
resources permit links.
 Many do NOT permit uploading full-text.
 Library permitted uses link will tell you
what we’ve been able to negotiate
 http://gw2jh3xr2c.search.serialssolutions.co
m/?SS_searchTypeJournal=yes&V=1.0&L=G
W2JH3XR2C&S=AC_T_B&C=library
 Avoid linking to material you find on the
web if you aren’t sure it was uploaded
legally

4. For more information about
PURLS…
 Check out our online guide:
http://help.library.ubc.ca/help-
for/faculty/creating-persistent-urls/

5. Institutional Repositories (IRs)
 “An institutional repository (IR) is a digital
collection of a university's intellectual
output.
 Institutional repositories centralize,
preserve, and make accessible the
knowledge generated by academic
institutions.” (Canadian Association of
Research Libraries).

6. IRs – why care?
 Depending on the contract signed,
authors may have retained the right to
archive their pre-prints.
 Check the CC license associated with the
IR in question – you may be free to share
the archived version of an article.

7. IR searching efficiently
 Why search one IR at a time?
 UBC materials try cIRcle and/or Summon
 Non-UBC – try a harvester like:
 OAIster
 OpenDOAR
 ROAR
 SHERPA
 CARL or even
 Google Scholar

8. Public Domain
 "Incopyright, the realm of works that are
not protected either because their term
of protection has expired, or because
they were released by the creator without
intention of claiming copyright, is known
as the public domain. Works in the public
domain can be appropriated by anyone
without liability for infringement" (Creative
Commons Canada).

9. What’s in the Public Domain?
 PublicDomain in Canada= Life of creator
plus 50 years
 PublicDomain in other jurisdictions –
particularly US and EU = Life of creator
plus 70 years
 Beware scholarly editions and translations
– not necessarily in the public domain

10. Where can I find PD items?
 Internet Archive is a terrific source of works in the public domain and also
hosts the Wayback Machine
 Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Canada: digitized literary works
 Library and Archives Canada (LAC) The LAC website is a rich source of
historical materials – many of which are in the public domain and LAC
grants you the ability to reproduce them without prior permission. Other
materials, however, are restricted. For more information see:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/notices/016-200-e.html
 Hathi Trust "is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries….”
 Note, only 26% of the Hathi Trust's digitized materials are in the public
domain.
 Also note, only members of Hathi Trust can download PDFs of works in
the public domain. (UBC is not a member). Non-members can still view
public domain materials in their entirety on the Hathi Trust website. The
search engine for the collection is available here:
http://www.hathitrust.org/

11. More PD items
 U.S. Government Photos and Images: This site
provides a searchable database that contains both
public domain and copyrighted images
 International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP): This
online music library provides "music scores free of
charge to anyone with internet access." IMSLP follows
Canadian copyright law and its scores are in the
public domain in Canada.
 Google Books - Not all content discoverable by
means of Google Books is in the public domain and
therefore you will find many items are not freely
available. Note, even if you limit your searches to the
items in the "Classics" you may find many public
domain titles in editions/versions which are still under
copyright (scholarly edns/translations etc.)

12. Other sources – LINK don’t upload
 NFB. According to the site's terms of use it is permitted to link to the NFB's videos for
non-commercial purposes (so teaching & research is fine). The Embeddable
Content is for personal use only. Teaching is not considered "personal use" so you
should not embed (i.e., upload) any NFB content into course shells, professional
webpages etc. Fortunately, the NFB's browser URLs are stable for each video title.
 PBS: American Experience. This website contains full-length videos from PBS'
American Experience documentary series. According to the terms of use for the
website you may provide students with a link to the relevant videos on the website,
for their personal viewing. Downloading the website content for anything other
than personal viewing is not permitted.
 American Memory Collection. "Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable
in the Library of Congress' American Memory collections." Collections include
America at Work, America at Leisure 1894 - 1915; American Variety Stage:
Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920; Life of a City: Early Films of New
York 1898-1906; Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San
Francisco, 1897-1916 and Origins of American Animation. No explicit statements
regarding downloading – better to link.
 Civil Rights Digital Library. "The CRDL features a collection of unedited news film
from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University
of Georgia Libraries. “ Again, no explicit statements regarding downloads, but the
site notes “copyright restrictions” which do not permit commercial use. Better to
link.

13. While….
The ultimate responsibility to check
permitted uses/licensing conditions of
materials you find online is yours….
You don’t have to go it alone – we can
help!

14.  UBC’s copyright site: http://copyright.ubc.ca/
 Have a copyright question regarding your
teaching or research at UBC? Post it to: ubc-
copyright@interchange.ubc.ca
 Questions about authors’ rights? See
http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ or contact Joy
Kirchner at joy.kirchner@ubc.ca
 Problems with access to an e-resource?
Contact the folks in e-resources help here:
http://about.library.ubc.ca/contact-
us/ejournal-help/
 Anything else? If we don’t know, we can
direct you to someone who does: Brian Lamb
brian.lamb@ubc.ca; Shawnna Parlongo
shawnna.parlongo@ubc.ca