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