The WCM Library Copyright Resources are designed to assist faculty and staff in negotiating the complex issues of copyright compliance in an academic environment. Unique copyright compliance requirements, for medical image sources available within the WCM Library's Electronic Resources, are detailed below.
To find consumer health materials in non-English languages, search by ethnic group or language spoken, i.e., Cambodian (group) or Khmer (language). Where possible, search by both the English name and the name in the target language (if Roman alphabetic), and use variations with and without accents and special characters, i.e., Spanish or Español or Espanol.
Copyrighted material is owned by its producers and their agents. The library has obtained a limited license to use this material.
Authorized users under the license include: current faculty, students, staff of the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and those who use the computers that the library provides to the general public.
Open Access (OA) is literature that is available free of charge, and also free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The move towards OA is a grass-roots response to the increasingly high cost of journals, which makes them difficult for libraries to afford and for users to access.
Copyright is a complex issue, particularly within an evolving digital environment. This page links to guidelines on course reserves, classroom copying and educational multimedia, as well as the institution's copyright policy.
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Scholarly Communication Information Services in Support of Research (SCISSORS) is provided by the Weill Cornell Medical Library to help you cut through the red tape of research, publishing, networking, and other scholarly endeavors. To request these and similar services, contact us. For additional information on publishing, please see our 'Preparing to Publish' guide.
