This is the site where you can register your copyrights, renew copyrights, search copyright records, and learn more about copyright law.

This website is aimed at the academic community and explores scholarly communication issues in the digital realm. It was developed by the Association of Research Libraries and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

Understand the basics of copyright. A resource created by the University of Texas Libraries

Educational suite of products and materials from the Copyright Clearance Center to help instructors and students learn about copyright issues and academic research and publication.

Basic curriculum designed to help you educate students about copyright.

An intensive listing of resources put together by the Visual Resources Association, Intellectual Property Rights Committee. http://www.vraweb.org/organization/committees/ipr/ipr_resources.html. In particular please note the VRA statement on Fair Use http://www.vraweb.org/organization/pdf/VRAFairUseGuidelinesFinal.pdf and the Executive Statement http://www.vraweb.org/organization/pdf/VRA-Exec-Summary-Final.pdf which describe cases in which the VRA believes the use of images in research, teaching, and study fall under Fair Use.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Documentary filmmakers have created, through their professional associations, a clear, easy to understand statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use. Download this useful handbook, written by veteran filmmakers to help other filmmakers understand some instances where using copyrighted material without clearance is considered fair use

commercial site listing contacts for licensing clips and stills

Information addressing graduate student concerns about Electronic Thesis/Dissertation publishing, depositing, agreements with publishers, copyright registration, and the ability to publish future articles. Site maintained by Duke Graduate School.

A pdf manual, by Kenneth Crews, to help graduate students learn and understand copyright issues.

Prepared for the Computer & Communications Industry Association, 2011

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, ARL (Association of Research Libraries: "The Code is a set of 8 high level principles that are a synthesis of behavioral norms based on reasonable, responsible decision-making by librarians nationwide."

This website from the NIH explains the new Public Access Policy, tells researchers how to comply with the policy, and provides a detailed FAQ.

The RoMEO project tracks the copyright permission policies of over 300 hundred academic journal publishers. You can use this site to identify publishers with good copyright policies, and to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

A Library of Congress blog for information on plans and progress of the Copyright Digitization and Public Access project

Kresge Library @Scripps Research Institute. Journal Policy Database for journals complying with NIH public access policy and the journal's NIH deposit method.

"The Code is a set of 8 high level principles that are a synthesis of behavioral norms based on reasonable, responsible decision-making by librarians nationwide."

EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, has a collection of copyright tutorials and presentations written by EDUCAUSE and its members.

The Stanford University Libraries offer a comprehensive site that includes links to the U.S. Constitution and copyright legislation, a detailed overview of fair use, and articles from prominent copyright scholars.

This database searches Library of Congress copyright renewal records for books published from 1923 to 1963. If their copyrights were not renewed, many books published in that time period have since entered the public domain.

The UC system's Office of Scholarly Communication offers extensive information on issues affecting academic authors. It includes an overview of the current trends in scholarly communication, a section on negotiating publishing agreements, an interesting database tracking the vital statistics of over 3,000 major journals.

Cornell's copyright website includes a handy chart to figure out when a work enters the public domain.