Legal use within copyright and licencing with acknowledgement
Commercial publishers provide the traditional method of sourcing academic texts, and still is the most common.
The Library makes publisher material available through licenced databases and Library QuickSearch , and also can provide spot purchases for particular titles.
The Learning Resources team also spot purchase content for teaching - collate a list of citations and forward to the Learning Resources service who can source and make available content for you and your students
The Statutory licence allows us to make a limited amount of text and graphics available for students for educational purposes. This means a chapter or 10% of a print book, or a complete journal article can be digitised and made available through Course Readings. Graphics, images, and post broadcast TV and podcasts are also able to made available. For more information see the Guidelines for Copyright for teaching
Creative Commons licences allows others to make no cost use of the copyright material without requiring users to seek permission. If something include the Creative Commons licence you can reuse in your teaching content with ease. More information see the OER guide.
Open Education Resources option? Consider: OERs are already licenced for free use. (Info icon) Look through catalogues of open education resources from the OER Library Guide
Public Domain material is that where Copyright has expired, or the copyright owner has waived their rights. You can use this material for teaching with ease.
Where content is not able to be used under clear licences seek permission from the copyright owner. This is a common practice and publishers have processes available which are often on their websites.For assistance contact the Copyright Office
For more information about Open Licenced content see our Open Educational Resources guide
"The academic integrity of a course of study may be questioned if unacknowledged use is made of external materials." From TEQSA (2019), Guidance note: Academic integrity, v. 1.2
Identifying the essential descriptors of a work which establish the link between work and its creator, and under what rights it is reproduced. Required when reproducing copyright content of others (legally) and to ensure source of content is acknowledged (ethically for academic integrity).
The full bibliographic details of content which has been cited in-text in the body of the work, arranged in a list at the end of the work and following the citation style as required by the discipline.
Acknowledging the source of an idea, concept, or work in scholarly writing.
No particular style is defined in the Copyright Act.
Minimum requirements include details to identify the author/creator, title, URL or location, and can include other details depending on the work. Also ensure you follow any directions by the author for how they would like to be attributed.
Web based informal attribution T.A.S. L - Title Author Source Licence For informal web based attributions the simple format can include hyperlinks to to information which makes the attribution short and suited when used on screens. Creative Commons also request this style for their content. For an online attribution builder for open material see OpenWA Attribution Builder.
Academic writing or teaching - Formal citation style For academic writing use the preferred style of your Federation University school - APA or Chicago style for example. See FedCite and navigate to images for further information.
Practical positioning which clearly shows connection between item and attribution
| Print content | Below or beside work, footnote, credit list at end |
| Moodle or other electronic | Next to work, in footer, list of works at end, in ALT text when hovered |
| Audio or podcast | Time pinpoint and note at end credits, or refer verbally then note in credits |
| Film | At point when item is visible in film, or at end in credits |
Copyright Office:
Acquisitions: Contact for advice about licences and purchasing texts.