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Copyright & Fair Use – New Resources

Copyright and Plagiarism covers Using Other People’s Copyrighted Work and Managing Your Own Copyrighted Work.

CMU’s succinct updated Fair Use Policy (April 2013) recommends balancing fair use factors ‘in the light of purposes of copyright’ and describes academic best practices for fair use.


Sorrells Library closed for renovations

Sorrells E&S Library in Wean Hall is closed from May 15-Aug. 10 for major renovations. Plans to minimize disruption of the closure are being publicized directly to Sorrells Library constituencies.

Please contact Head of Science Libraries Matt Marsteller at matthewm@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-7212 if you have questions or concerns.


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Documents and databases on economics, energy, education, health, environment, employment, patents, R&D, finance, governance, agriculture, industry, science, trade, transportation, and more. Global coverage from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (IEA Databases not included.) More information.  

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Library News and Events

The Libraries have created a fund to help Carnegie Mellon authors pay Article Processing Charges (APC) to publish in open access journals – offering up to $1,500 per article, with a cap of $3,000 per author per fiscal year.  Ideally, the corresponding author’s department will also contribute to paying the [...]
Mon, May 20, 2013
Copyright and Plagiarism covers Using Other People’s Copyrighted Work and Managing Your Own Copyrighted Work. CMU’s succinct updated Fair Use Policy (April 2013) recommends balancing fair use factors ‘in the light of purposes of copyright’ and describes academic best practices for fair use. [...]
Mon, May 20, 2013
Foreign & International Law Resources – International Yearbooks and periodicals, U.S. Law Digests, International Tribunals/Juducial Decisions, Court of Justice of the European Communities, etc. [...]
Mon, May 06, 2013