Five tips for users
As the user of scientific/scholarly material, you can find out a lot about copyright, but you are not necessarily an expert.
But did you know that...
- You can make a copy of a publication if you need it for your own practice, study, or use. That applies both to printed and digital copies.
- You are not permitted to copy a whole book, however. The exception that allows you to make copies without the author’s permission applies only to short articles and to short passages from books.
- If you indicate the source, you can create links from your website to other people’s publications (as long as the article does not then open on your own web page).
- You do not need someone’s permission to use an article they have written for non-commercial educational purposes, although you are required to pay the author for doing so. Your institution’s legal department can give you more detailed information.
- If you indicate the source, you can quote someone else’s article in an announcement, a polemic, an assessment, a scientific/scholarly treatise, or in an utterance with a similar object.