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Creative Commons Images
Finding freely usable images.
Additional sources:
CC search
Open clip art
Public Domain
Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain hosts this fascinating look into what could have entered the public domain in 2014 (had copyright law remained the same as it was in 1978).
Copyright in Research
UT Librarians can help you
- Find information about Fair Use and Copyright (including books, websites and articles)
- Understand the copyright agreements you sign
- Find and use addendum to modify those copyright agreements
When in doubt, contact me.
Copyright in the Classroom
Copyright in a teaching setting
- Association of Research Libraries brochure that covers the most common copyright issues encountered in a teaching setting.
- “What You Can Do” chart is useful for quick reference.
- Chart developed by Cornell chart for teachers who need a quick way of finding whether the work they want to use in class falls under the Fair Use doctrine.
The tools provided by the Copyright Advisory Subcommittee of the ALA can be helpful when trying to understand the complexities of copyright.
Other resources:
Exceptions for Instructors eTool
Minnesota fair use analysis tool
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center
What About Impact Factor?
"The impact factor... was never intended to be used to evaluate individual scientists, but rather as a measure of journal quality. However, it has been increasingly misused in this way...
The misuse of the journal impact factor is highly destructive, inviting a gaming of the metric that can bias journals against publishing important papers in fields"
Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science.
More from the International Mathematical Union and others.
Learn about article level metrics here.