Access Copyright notice

SCHEDULE “B”
NOTIFICATION OF THE TERMS OF COPYING

Print and Digital Copying Guidelines

Your institution’s licence with Access Copyright provides Students and Staff with permission to copy within or in support of your institution’s mandate, in addition to ways that are covered by fair dealing and other permitted uses under the Copyright Act.

What can I copy?

You can copy any published work in Access Copyright’s repertoire. Use the Access Copyright Repertoire Look Up Tool, available at http://www.accesscopyright.ca/look-up-tool.

For published works in Access Copyright’s repertoire, you can:

  • Photocopy, fax, scan and print.
  • Store copies, such as on a hard drive, USB stick or on a Secure Network.
  • Transmit by email, upload or post copies within a Secure Network.
  • Project and display copies, such as on overheads, on LCD or plasma monitors, or interactive whiteboards.
  • Make copies for the purposes of interlibrary loan, creating alternate format copies and managing library collections.
  • Create Course Collections.

Course collections are paper copies of published works assembled into coursepacks or digital copies of published works that are either emailed, linked or hyperlinked to, or posted on, uploaded to or stored on a Secure Network as part of a course of study.

How much can I copy?

You may copy up to 10% of a repertoire work or make a copy of a repertoire work that is:

  • an entire article, short story, play, essay or poem, or reproduction of an artistic work from a volume containing other published works.
  • an entire article or page from a newspaper or periodical.
  • an entire entry from an encyclopedia or similar reference work or an entire reproduction of an artistic work from a publication.
  • one chapter of a book, provided the chapter is no more than 20% of that book.

You may copy up to 20% of a repertoire work or any of the above for a Course Collection and for certain library collection management purposes. This is a summary for ease of reference. For specific terms, please consult the Licence or specific publisher licences for library electronic subscriptions.  To learn more, please review your institution’s licence, contact your licence administrator or email Access Copyright at postsec@accesscopyright.ca.