In addition to the information available here on the Scholarly Communications web site, several offices at Duke offer additional advice about copyright as it pertains to their particular mission. Some of these sources of information are listed here.

The Duke Medical Center Library has a comprehensive copyright information site intended to support publication of research. It provides an overview of the law, discusses fair use and takes a helpful “best practices” approach:

Lee Sorensen, librarian for visual studies at Duke, offers this guide to help apply copyright rules to the educational use of images:

Duke University’s Research Policy Manual contains Duke’s policies on innovation and intellectual property in Section 6, and other relevant policies in other parts of the Research Policy Manual and Faculty Handbook.

These Guidelines on Copyright and Electronic Course Content were endorsed by the Duke Academic Council in February 2008: