Copyright Information for Students

How To Use Electronic Reserves on the BCC catalog

BCC Library's Electronic Reserves system permits viewing the full text of materials that instructors have put on reserve through the Libraries' web site. These materials can be accessed via the campus network or from off-campus.

1. Go to library catalog
2. Click on the Course Reserves button.
3. Search by instructor name or course number. If searching by course number, be certain to select the correct instructor when you get to the next screen.)

How to View and Print

All items are in PDF, html or Word format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for viewing the PDF items.

1. To view electronic reserve materials, click on the title that is followed by Electronic Reserve. You will be taken to a page that lists each item on reserve for that course. Click on the name of the item that you wish to read or print.
2. In special circumstances due to copyright holder's restrictions your instructor will provide a course specific password.
3. To print, click on the Adobe Acrobat print icon and specify the range of pages to print. Do not use the browser's print function that you access through the File Menu. If you have problems printing, you may need to download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
4. For other formats click on File menu, then Print subsequent. When print screen displays, click print button at bottom.

Electronic Materials: What You May or May Not Use

For students enrolled in a course at BCC, here are guidelines to follow before using the electronic or multimedia materials that a professor assigns for study or for use in creating projects and writing papers.

Copyright law protects all electronic and multimedia materials encountered during study, unless there is a specific statement attached to the materials stating that they are in the public domain.

Students May

Read, examine, watch, and listen to assigned electronic and/or multimedia materials in the library, classrooms, the Language Resource Center, on public computers and television sets, and on personal equipment (television sets, computers) attached to the campus network.

However, students may copy small segments of electronic or multimedia material, and transfer the segments to another medium (e.g. from videotape to digitized form), if they intend to use the materials in a project or paper that has been assigned to meet the requirements of a BCC course or that is part of an independent work project or paper for which BCC credit is received. There is no legal definition of "small," but the segments copied should represent only a fraction of the original work.

Incorporate small segments of another's work(s) into an assigned project or electronic paper, if they acknowledge the source of all electronic or multimedia materials used, as is done with traditional source material.

Manipulate these small segments (that is, change their look or sound) only for purposes of study or criticism. They must clearly state what changes have been made to the original.

Students May Not

Copy multimedia materials, unless a faculty member explicitly instructs and gives permission to do so. Students may not tape them, save them, download them, print them, duplicate them onto the same or another medium, or send them over the network to themselves or to anybody else unless for private study and/or research.

Share these small segments in any form, either individually or as they are incorporated into a paper, with anybody other than a professor or the members of a course. Students may not duplicate the segments or send them to others over the network.

Display the segments publicly. For example, students may not place them on a personal, course, or group Web page that is unrestricted in access.

Students must obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) to make extensive use of copyrighted material, or to share the material beyond the class.

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