Free Online Information
- 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.
- 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.
- Free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University
- 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.
- – The home of free learning from The Open University (UK)
- Free, open resource media database
- – 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.
- – (formerly LectureFox) collection of open online courses, classes, lectures, podcasts and more.
- – International award winning learning object and asset library hosted by the Wisconsin Technical College System.
- – Offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.
- – 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
- , 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, 2003, Just about anything you want to know about the U.S. Government
- , U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress , 2003, Home page of the definitive source of U.S. copyright information
Comprehensive Sites
- , Benedict O’Mahoney, 1995-2002, Provides real world, practical, and relevant copyright information
- , Stanford University Library , Stanford University, 2000, Numerous copyright and other legal resources
- , Harvard Law School, Harvard University, 2000, Among other things, they have good information on intellectual property
- , Cornell Law School, 2000, Legal information including court cases
- Glossary of Legal Terms from Lawyers.com
- – Business Communication site – Understanding Intellectual Property
Fair Use and Fair Use Guidelines
- , Daniel A. Tysver, BitLaw – A Resource on Technology Law, 1996-2001, Comprehensive Internet resource on technology law
- , Stanford University Library, Stanford University, 2000, Numerous copyright and other legal resources
- , Mary Hutchings Reed and Debra Stanek, American Library Association, 1986, Model policy addressing issues that librarians had brought