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Writing Guides, Style Manuals and the Publication Process in the Biological and Health Sciences
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Writing Guides
  • Books
    • Books available on the topic of Medical Writing
      http://umnlib.oit.umn.edu/F/QMJS34VXRLB6D137MB979FXVC62PQXJHC16PKKD7SSQMKJ8GDB-03791?action_view.x=45&action_view.y=4&func=history-action&submit_action=&set_number=004263
      Catalog search results on the topic of medical/healthcare writing
    • Books available on the topic of Publishing
      http://umnlib.oit.umn.edu/F/QMJS34VXRLB6D137MB979FXVC62PQXJHC16PKKD7SSQMKJ8GDB-03057?func=find-a&find_code=WME&request=publishing&request_op=AND&find_code=WRD&request=&request_op=AND&find_code=WRD&request=&adjacent=N&x=31&y=7&filter_code_1=WLG&filter_request_1=&filter_code_4=WAT&filter_request_4=&filter_code_5=WSC&filter_request_5=&filter_code_6=WDT&filter_request_6=&filter_code_2=WDT&filter_request_2=&filter_code_3=WDT&filter_request_3=
      Catalog search results on the topic of medical/healthcare publishing
    • Books available on the topic of Authorship
      http://umnlib.oit.umn.edu/F/QMJS34VXRLB6D137MB979FXVC62PQXJHC16PKKD7SSQMKJ8GDB-02116?func=find-a&find_code=WME&request=authorship&request_op=AND&find_code=WRD&request=&request_op=AND&find_code=WRD&request=&adjacent=N&x=37&y=6&filter_code_1=WLG&filter_request_1=&filter_code_4=WAT&filter_request_4=&filter_code_5=WSC&filter_request_5=&filter_code_6=WDT&filter_request_6=&filter_code_2=WDT&filter_request_2=&filter_code_3=WDT&filter_request_3=
      Catalog search results on the topic of medical/healthcare authorship
    • Books available on the topic of Data Display
      http://umnlib.oit.umn.edu/F/QMJS34VXRLB6D137MB979FXVC62PQXJHC16PKKD7SSQMKJ8GDB-04455?action_view.x=40&action_view.y=5&func=history-action&submit_action=&set_number=004315
      Catalog search results on the topic of data display
    • Books available on the topic of Research Methods
      http://umnlib.oit.umn.edu/F/QMJS34VXRLB6D137MB979FXVC62PQXJHC16PKKD7SSQMKJ8GDB-05299?func=find-acc&acc_sequence=067771495
      catalog search results on the topic of research methods or methodology.
  • Internet Resources
    • Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
      http://www.grammarbook.com/
      This popular book is an indispensable and entertaining guide for writers, proofreaders, editors, managers, clerical staff, teachers, and students. Use this site to find the answers to your questions concerning proper English grammar and punctuation.
    • Elements of Style
      http://www.bartleby.com/141/
      The electronic version of the classic work by William Strunk, Jr. that includes rules of grammar and usage, principles of composition, and commonly misused and misspelled words.
    • Guide to grammar & writing
      http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
      Maintained by Charles Darling, Professor of English at Capital Community College, Hartford CT. Includes sections on words & sentences; paragraphs; essays & research papers; peripheral & PowerPoint. Check the Index to find more "online resources."
    • How to publish in top journals
      http://www.roie.org/how.htm
      This brief manual provides useful suggestions for today's authors. By Kwan Choi, Editor, RIE.
    • Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing
      http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/home.htm
      Authors: Leslie C. Perelman, Edward Barrett, and James Paradis ; ESL Consultant: Erika Mitchell

      The Web-based version of The Mayfield Handbook of Scientific and Technical Writing is the result of more than ten years of collaborative development at MIT. The Handbook is the first hypertextual reference work designed specifically for technical and scientific writing. MIT authors Leslie Perelman, James Paradis, and Edward Barrett offer information and advice on grammar and usage, strategies for planning and producing documents, and common document formats and citation styles.

    • The nuts and bolts of college writing
      http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
      Covers the dynamic process of thinking; structure; evidence; mechanics of writing and finishing. By Professor Michael Hackett of Washington College, MD
    • Online Grammar Handbook
      http://www.umn.edu/~jewel001/grammar/
      "21 chapters of web links to writing, grammar, punctuation & research inclucing links to arguments, literature & sample student papers of many types."
    • Writing Guides
      http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/
      From Colorado State University. Covers the writing process, types of documents, researching sources and using sources.
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Checklists and Other Tools
  • CONSORT Statement
    http://www.consort-statement.org/
    "CONSORT comprises a checklist and flow diagram to help improve the quality of reports of randomized controlled trials. It offers a standard way for researchers to report trials. The checklist includes items, based on evidence, that need to be addressed in the report; the flow diagram provides readers with a clear picture of the progress of all participants in the trial, from the time they are randomized until the end of their involvement. The intent is to make the experimental process more clear, flawed or not, so that users of the data can more appropriately evaluate its validity for their purposes."
    • MOOSE Checklist
      http://www.consort-statement.org/Initiatives/MOOSE/moose.pdf
      Meta-analysis of Observational Studies (MOOSE)
    • STARD Initiative
      http://www.consort-statement.org/Initiatives/newstard.htm
      Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD)
    • STROBE
      http://www.strobe-statement.org/
      "STROBE stands for an international, collaborative initiative of epidemiologists, methodologists, statisticians, researchers and editors involved in the conduct and dissemination of observational studies, with the common aim of STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology."
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Style Manuals - Health Sciences
  • ACS Style (American Chemical Society)
    • Books
    • Internet Resources
      • Writing a scientific paper.
        http://www.oup-usa.org/sc/0841234620/0841234620_1.html
        Chapter one from The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors Second Edition Janet S. Dodd, Editor
  • AMA Style (American Medical Association)
    • Books
      • AMA manual of style: a guide for authors and editors
        Sect. 1. Preparing an article for publication. Types of articles -- Manuscript preparation -- References -- Visual presentation of data -- Ethical and legal considerations -- Editorial assessment and processing -- Sect. 2. Grammar -- Punctuation -- Plurals -- Capitalization -- Correct and preferred usage -- Non-english words, phrases, and accent marks -- Medical indexes -- Sect. 3. Terminology. Abbreviations -- Nomenclature -- Eponyms -- Greek letters --Sect. 4. Measurement and Quantitation. Units of measure -- Numbers and percentages -- Study design and statistics -- Mathematical composition -- Sect. 5. Technical information. Typography -- Manuscript editing and proofreading -- Glossary of publishing terms -- Resources. Rev. ed. of: American Medical Association manual of style. 9th ed. c1998.
        • Location(s): TC Bio-Medical Library Reference WZ345 A511 2007
        • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability http://prime2.oit.umn.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&vid=TWINCITIES&doc=umn_aleph004931795
    • Internet Resources
      • AMA citation style
        http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citama.htm
        Long Island University
      • AMA style guide
        http://libraries.evansville.edu/style/ama.html
        University of Evansville
  • APA Style (American Psychological Association)
    • Books
      • Concise rules of APA style
        1. Concise and bias-free writing -- 2. Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization -- 3. Italicizing and abbreviating -- 4. Numbers, metrication, and statistics -- 5. Tables -- 6. Figures -- 7. Footnotes and appendixes -- 8. Quotations, reference citations in text, and reference list -- 9. Reference examples.
        • Location(s): TC Bio-Medical Library Reference WZ345 C743 2005; Magrath Library Reference BF76.7 .C66 2005
        • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability http://prime2.oit.umn.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&vid=TWINCITIES&doc=umn_aleph 004514977
      • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
        The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals in psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work, and justice administration, and other disciplines in which effective communication with words and data is fundamental. In addition to providing clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, the Publication Manual offers an authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system and comprehensive coverage of the treatment of numbers, metrication, statistical and mathematical data, tables, and figures for use in writing, reports, or presentations. The new edition has been revised and updated to include: The latest guidelines and examples for referencing electronic and online sources; New and revised guidelines for submitting papers electronically; Improved guidelines for avoiding plagiarism; Simplified formatting guidelines for writers using up-to-date word-processing software; All new guidelines for presenting case studies; Improved guidelines for the construction of tables; Updates on copyright and permissions issues for writers. New reference examples for audiovisual media and patents; An expanded and improved index for quick and easy access; Writers, scholars, and professionals will also find: New guidelines on how to choose text, tables, or figures to present data; Guidelines for writing cover letters for submitting articles for publication, plus a sample letter; Expanded guidelines on the retention of raw data; New advice on establishing written agreements for the use of shared data; New information on the responsibilities of co-authors.
        • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability http://prime2.oit.umn.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&vid=TWINCITIES&doc=umn_aleph005459980
      • Writing with style: APA style made easy
        Introduction: the laypeople and you -- Some generalizations about how psychologists write -- Preparing the introduction section and the literature review paper -- Preparing the method section -- Preparing the results section -- Preparing the discussion section -- Preparing the abstract -- Preparing the references section -- Preparing a title page and formatting your manuscript -- Grooming tips for psychology papers -- Preparing a presentation -- Wrapping it up.
        • Location(s): TC Bio-Medical Library BF76.8 S998w 2008
        • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability http://prime2.oit.umn.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&vid=TWINCITIES&doc=umn_aleph004958880
    • Internet Resources
      • APA Style
        http://library.nmu.edu/apastyle.htm
        From the Lydia M. Olson Library, Northern Michigan University

        Covers all reference formats. Includes new 2007 Electronic Reference formats: " Referencing online journal articles and some other materials has changed to emphasize using an assigned DOI (digital object identifier). Date of retrieval is no longer included for materials that are unlikely to be changed or updated (PDF/page images). "

      • APA Tutorial
        http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/apatutorial/tutorialindex.html
        A tutorial of APA style, 5th ed., from the University of Southern Mississippi
      • APA Style.org: Electronic References
        http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
        From the American Psychological Association.

        The following web pages are excerpted from the APA Style Guide to Electronic References (© 2007) and the fifth edition of the Publication Manual (© 2001).

        The material provided covers commonly asked questions regarding how to cite electronic media.

        Please note that there have been changes in APA's style guidelines for electronic resources with the release of the APA Style Guide to Electronic References.

        Because electronic media change rapidly, we will update this page regularly as there are additions, changes, or clarifications to APA style.

  • CBE Style (Council of Biological Editors)
    • Books
    • Internet Resources
      • Sciences: documenting sources
        http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c11_o.html
        From Research & Documentation Online. This section covers CBE number system, reference list, manuscript format and samples pages.
  • Harvard Style
    • Citing your sources - Harvard style
      http://www.library.uwa.edu.au/education_training___and___support/guides/how_to_cite_your_sources/citing_your_sources_-_harvard_style
      University of Western Australia
    • Harvard Style
      http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/harvard.html
      Unversity of Queensland
  • NLM Style (National Library of Medicine)
    • Books
    • Internet Resources
      • Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.
        http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=citmed.TOC&depth=2
        2nd ed., 2007

        "Citing Medicine gives information on constructing citations at three levels:

        • 1. Diagrammed Citation - Many people need to format a non-complex citation and want to know how to format a citation, without learning why it should be structured that way. The picture of the sample citation and the broad guidelines (what we're calling the Introduction) will be enough for many people in this group.
        • 2. General Rules and Examples - A smaller number of people will need to view the General Rules and Examples sections to get more information. They either will have a specific problem to solve or their work requires them to build a general knowledge of citation that they can later apply to specific cases. For this group we lay out why citations are structured the way they are and show them what types of citations exist (Examples) and what special, difficult cases they may encounter (Specific Rules).
        • 3. Specific Rules - A yet smaller number of people will need to enter the Specific Rules section to solve a specific problem, such as handling non-English citations.
      • NLM Style guide
        http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/nlm.html
        HealthLinks, University of Washington
  • Vancouver Style (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors)
    • Books
    • Internet Resources
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Other Citation Guides & Styles
  • Citing OMIM
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/omimfaq.html#citing_omim
    How to cite Onine Mendelian Inheritance in Man references.
  • DocsCite
    http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/docscite/docscite.htm
    DocsCite is a step-by-step guide to putting government publication citations into proper APA or MLA style format. From the Arizona State University Libraries.
  • Guidelines for Scientific Publishing
    http://www.scielo.org/guidelines_en.pdf
    International Council for Science (ICSU). Committee on Dissemination of Scientific Information. 3rd ed. 1999
  • ISO 690:1987 Information and documentation -- Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure
    Contains excerpts to the International Standard that specifies the elements to be included in bibliographic references to published monographs and serials, to chapters, articles, etc. in such publications and to patent documents. ISO 690-2 covers electronic resources.
    • ISO 690:1987
      http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-1e.htm
    • ISO 690-2
      http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-2e.htm
  • National Center for Health Statistics
  • Style manual
    This manual was written to foster consistency in University publications. It is intended not to dictate, but rather to suggest solutions to common writing and editing problems. It includes a body of rules that reflect current usage, plus a number of rules that pertain specifically to the University of Minnesota
    • Location(s): Wilson Reference Z253 .S92x 2002
  • Uncle Sam: Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
    http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html
    Creating by the Government Publications Department. Regional Depository Library. University of Memphis. Provides examples of the most common examples of government documentation.
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Instructions for Authors
  • Academic Journal Policy Database
    http://www.etd.uc.edu/journal/
    The University of Cincinnati has developed a database of links to publishers' journal policies called the Academic Journal Policy Database (AJPD).
  • Author's handbook of styles for life science journals
    Each journal entry contains publisher's address, aim and scope, and information on manuscript information and format. Includes instructions for authors for submission of articles to English-language life sciences journals.
    • Location(s): Bio-Medical Library Reference WZ345 A881a 1996; Ent/Fish/Wild Library Reference R119 .A85 1995; Magrath Library Reference R119 .A85 1995; Veterinary Medical Library Reference R119 .A85 1995
    • Check MNCAT Record for Location and Availability http://prime2.oit.umn.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&vid=TWINCITIES&doc=umn_aleph001832185
  • Author's Addendum
    http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/docs/AuthorsAddendum2_1.pdf
    "The SPARC Author’s Addendum is a form you use to amend the document that your publisher asks you to sign. Developed for SPARC by Michael Carroll of the Villanova University School of Law, the addendum is designed to be filled out and attached to the agreement supplied by the journal publisher. By using the SPARC Author’s Addendum you will, for example, retain the right to make your article available in a non-commercial open digital archive on the Web (such as the National Institutes of Health’s PubMed Central or your institution’s open digital archive) or to make copies of your article for use in the classes you teach."
  • Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences.
    http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/
    These pages provide links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles. Maintained by the Raymon H. Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio.
  • SHERPA/RoMEO
    http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
    Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving.

    This site can be used to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. Searchable by journal title or publisher name. Can also be browsed by RoMEO colors, which differentiate between different archiving policies.

    • green: can archive pre-print and post-print
    • blue: can archive post-print
    • yellow: can archive pre-print
    • white: archiving not formally supported
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NIH Public Access Policy
  • NIH Public Access Policy
    http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
    Information on
    • Journals that [automatically]submit to PubMed Central
    • submission policies
    • frequently asked questions
    • policy details
      • PMID : PMCID Converter
        http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pmctopmid
        If an article is in PubMed and in PMC, it will have both a PubMed ID (PMID) and a PMC ID. Use this converter to translate one type of ID to the other.
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Open Access Publishing
  • PubMed Central
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
    PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
  • SHERPA
    http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
    "SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research."
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Journal Information
  • Genamics JournalSeek: Medicine
    http://journalseek.net/med.htm
    Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. Presently contains 60,458 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.
  • JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator
    http://biosemantics.org/jane/index.php
    JANE helps authors find journals to submit articles to, similar papers to cite or helps editors locate potential reviewers.

    From the website: Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.

    JANE first searches for the 50 articles that are most similar to your input. For each of these articles, a similarity score between that article and your input is calculated. The similarity scores of all the articles belonging to a certain journal or author are summed to calculate the confidence score for that journal or author. The results are ranked by confidence score. Created by the Biosemantics Group (www.biosemantics.org)

  • Journal Info
    http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/
    Companion database to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

    The purpose of the website is to provide an aid for the researcher in the selection of journal for publication. Provides information on accessibility (open access or not), cost (price per article / price per citation / profit status), quality (where indexed, journal eigenfactor), etc.

  • PubMed Journal Database
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Journals
    Search by title keyword or part of a word. Provides MEDLINE journal abbreviation, complete journal title, publisher and ISSN. Also has link to webpage containing list of PubMed journals that provide links to full text articles (all full-text, not just free full text)
  • SCImago Journal & Country Rank
    http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php
    A portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicatorpdf, developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.
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Dictionaries / Acronyms / Abbreviations
  • Acronym Finder.com
    http://www.acronymfinder.com/
    Searchable database of more than 317,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations
  • Bio-Tech Life Science Dictionary
    http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
    8300+ terms deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. Also some terms relating to ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine
  • A Dictionary of units of measurement.
    http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
    Besides metric and other units of measurement, covers Apgar scoring, Glasgow coma scale, SI units for medical data and nutritional daily values.
  • Medi-Lexicon
    http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/
    Over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.
  • Multilingual glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine european languages
    http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
    -an English dictionary of 1,830 medical terms, frequently used in written drug information - nine glossaries of 1830 scientific and popular medical terms, one in each of the nine official languages of the European Union. - an electronic database of the dictionary and glossaries - a user-friendly software interface as an Internet application, installed at the World-Wide Web server of the University of Gent, Belgium
  • On-line medical dictionary
    http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?action=Home&query=
    OMD is a searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science
  • Speciality dictionaries: medicine
    http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction5.html#medicine
    YourDictionary.com. Links to many general & speciality dictionaries in the health sciences
  • Veterinary abbreviations and acronyms
    http://door.library.uiuc.edu/vex//vetdocs/abbreviation.htm
    This list focuses on abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in veterinary practice and supplements the standard and widely available reference sources such as Gale's Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary. It is intended for use by veterinary students, researchers, practitioners, and librarians. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Veterinary Medicine Library
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Plagiarism
  • Avoiding Plagiarism
    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
    From the OWL Onine Writing Lab, Purdue University.
  • Avoiding Plagiarism 2.0
    http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_uopapl_2/0,,1838379-,00.html
    University of Phoenix Edition. Online tutorial for both MLA and APA style.
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Copyright Guidelines
  • Copyright Tools
    From the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology
    • Digital Copyright Slider
      http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
      An interactive tool to help determine whether or not a work is protected by copyright or not. Set the arrow at the correct date and read the information is the windows
    • Section 108 Spinner
      http://librarycopyright.net/108spinner/
      Use your mouse to turn the wheel chart to the desired section. Helps determine whether or not a particular reproduction is covered by Section 108
  • Creative Commons
    http://creativecommons.org/
    Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
  • Copyright & Fair Use
    http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
    Prepared by Stanford University Libraries this is a very useful site especially for those who are linear.
  • Copyright Clearance Center
    http://www.copyright.com/
    Here you can get permission to reproduce copyrighted content such as articles and book chapters in your journals, photocopies, coursepacks, library reserves, Web sites, e-mail and more.
  • Copyright Crash Course
    http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
    This excellent site compiled by the University of Texas System can teach us all a lot about the copyright despite the complexity of this subject.
  • Copyright Information and Education (U of M Libraries)
    http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/
    The site of the University of Minnesota Libraries' Copyright Information and Education Initiative, which supports an informed and educated University community on matters of copyright and its application in teaching, research, and scholarship. Includes tools such as a Fair Use Analysis Tool and Copyright Decision Map.
  • Copyright: an overview
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html
    This is a section of a larger main site covering all aspects of the law from the Cornell Law School (http://www.law.cornell.edu/). It is from the "Law about. . . " section of the main site.
  • Copyright Permissions Office, U of M
    http://www.copyright.umn.edu/home.htm
    This office, secures permission for copyrighted materials use for instructional or other academic purposes by U of M faculty and staff. Photocopying guidelines are also provided.
  • A Fair(y) Use Tale
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
    YouTube video that uses clips from Disney films to illustrate the concept of "Fair Use."
  • United States Copyright Office
    http://www.copyright.gov/
    Key publications, including informational circulars; application forms for copyright registration; links to the copyright law and to the homepages of other copyright-related organizations; news of what the Office is doing, including business-process reengineering plans, Congressional testimony and press releases, regulations; a link to online copyright records cataloged since 1978; and much more.


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