Free Online Information
- MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
- Open CourseWare Consortium A collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
- Open Yale Courses Free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University
- OER Commons Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
- OpenLearn – The home of free learning from The Open University (UK)
- WikiMedia Commons Free, open resource media database
- Connexions – A place to view and share educational materials made of small knowledge chunks. A service of the Connexions Consortium, a leader in open source educational technology and open access educational content.
- OnlineCourses – (formerly LectureFox) collection of open online courses, classes, lectures, podcasts and more.
- Wisconsin Online – International award winning learning object and asset library hosted by the Wisconsin Technical College System.
- openstax college – Offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.
- eduTopia OER: Resource Roundup– Educator’s guide to open educational resources for information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open alternatives to textbooks.
Government Copyright Sites
- The United States Constitution, Gerald Murphy, National Public Telecomputing Network, 1996, See Article 1, Section 8 for the basis of the legality of copyright laws in the United States
- Library of Congress, Library of Congress, 2003, Just about anything you want to know about the U.S. Government
- U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress , 2003, Home page of the definitive source of U.S. copyright information
Comprehensive Sites
- The Copyright Website, Benedict O’Mahoney, 1995-2002, Provides real world, practical, and relevant copyright information
- Copyright and Fair Use Index, Stanford University Library , Stanford University, 2000, Numerous copyright and other legal resources
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, 2000, Among other things, they have good information on intellectual property
- Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School, 2000, Legal information including court cases
- Glossary of Legal Terms Glossary of Legal Terms from Lawyers.com
- Nextiva – Business Communication site – Understanding Intellectual Property
Fair Use and Fair Use Guidelines
- Fair Use in Copyright , Daniel A. Tysver, BitLaw – A Resource on Technology Law, 1996-2001, Comprehensive Internet resource on technology law
- Copyright and Fair Use Index, Stanford University Library, Stanford University, 2000, Numerous copyright and other legal resources
- Library and Classroom Use of Copyrighted Videotapes and Computer Software, Mary Hutchings Reed and Debra Stanek, American Library Association, 1986, Model policy addressing issues that librarians had brought