This guide provides information on how specific database licenses allow us to use their content. The license may be per vendor or per product. If you have a question about permitted uses, please contact Alana Krause, Distance Education Librarian.
For copyright/licensing and library use statistics purposes, it is advisable to link resources versus downloading the PDF of the articles.
Videos from Films on Demand may be directly linked or embedded in Canvas or any password-protected website that is restricted to GWC students currently enrolled in a specific class. Professors may also show videos in the classroom during scheduled class times. You may not link videos on any public-facing site without a password.
Our license includes some public performance rights. This means that student clubs, film festivals, or any event that falls outside regular curriculum-based instruction may show films from this collection, as long as they do not charge an attendance fee and the events on held on campus as a college activity.
Videos from Swank may be directly linked in Canvas or any password-protected website that is restricted to GWC students currently enrolled in a specific class. Professors may also show videos in the classroom during scheduled class times.
You may not link videos on any public-facing site without a password.
Our license does NOT include public performance rights. Only classroom viewing rights are permitted. This means that student clubs, film festivals, or any event that falls outside regular curriculum-based instruction may not show films from this collection without permission being obtained in advance.