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Permitted Uses

Information on permitted uses of library resources

Purpose:

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.

Linking Article Resources in Canvas

Provide links with remote access to articles by using Permalinks/Bookmarks/Permanent URLs.

For copyright/licensing and library use statistics purposes, it is advisable to link resources versus downloading the PDF of the articles.

Instructions are found in the Library Services for Faculty Guide: Linking to Library Resources.

Streaming Video Content: Films on Demand

Instructional Content:

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.

Public Performance: 

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. 

Streaming Video Content: Swank Digital Campus

Instructional Content: 

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.

Public Performance: 

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. 

For Campus Events Requiring Public Performance Rights:

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License unless noted otherwise.