Copyright for Students

Section 30.04 of the Copyright Act allows faculty, staff and students of an educational institution to save, download and share Publicly Available Material (PAM) from the Internet.

Publicly available Internet material

• must be posted by the content creator or copyright owner
• must not contain any technological protection measures (TPMs), also called digital locks or digital rights management (DRM), such as a password, encryption system or similar technology designed to limit access
• must not contain a clearly visible notice that prohibits educational use
• any Internet materials that are used must be properly cited.

Licensing agreements between the College and the database vendors do not allow PDFs originating from article databases to be posted directly online or sent as an email attachment. 

Instead, link to the article record in one of the Library's article databases for distribution to other licensed users (i.e. other current Conestoga students, faculty, and staff). Permanent URLs are normally provided by the database and instructors are permitted to post these links on password-protected course sites, such as eConestoga, allowing their students to easily link to the articles.

Use these tutorials to learn the process of finding and inserting permanent links.