Fair Use, Net Neutrality, & Open Access

Fair Use and Public Domain

    Resources

• Center for the Study of the Public Domain

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use - Association of Research Libraries

• Copyright & Fair Use - Stanford University Libraries

• Copyright Advisory Network- ALA, Office for Information Technology Policy

• Copyright Alliance

• Creative Commons

• Fair Use - American Library Association

• Fair Use Checklist- Columbia University Libraries

• Fair Use Evaluator- ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy

• Fair Use Week

• Global Indigenous Data Alliance

• Library Copyright Alliance

• Local Contexts 

• Open Copyright Education Advisory Network

• Organization for Transformative Works

• Public Domain Review

• Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research

• Question Copyright

• Rights Statements for online cultural heritage

• Understanding Fair Use - University of Minnesota

    Articles

• Herther, Nancy. "Libraries, Orphan Works, and the Future of Copyright." newsbreaks.infotoday.com, 4 Oct. 2016.

• Malenfant, Kara. "National Library Groups Oppose Bill to Make Register of Copyrights a Presidential Appointee." ACRL Insider, acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider, 24 March 2017.

• Vulliez, Shawn. "The Universal Public Library." Medium, 29 Aug. 2022.

Net Neutrality

    Resources

• Internet Regulation/ Net Neutrality LibGuide - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Network Neutrality - American Library Association

• Open & Decentralized Web LibGuide - University of Arkansas

• Save the Internet

    Articles & Media

• ALA and ACRL join higher education, library groups to urge FCC and Congress to uphold net neutrality ala.org, 30 March 2017.

• Clark, Larra. "Network Neutrality in the Crosshairs." districtdispatch.org, 9 Jan. 2017.

• Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 1 June 2014.

• Net Neutrality: Selected full-text books and articles - Questia

Open Access        

    Resources

• Common Crawl

• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• FOLIO: The Future Of Libraries Is Open

• Free E-Book Foundation

• GLAM-E Lab

• Internet of Ownership

• Interoperable E-book Standards Statement (Library Futures)

• Libraries and the Internet Toolkit - American Library Association

• LibraryBox: "a digital distribution tool for education, libraries, healthcare, and emergency response. Anywhere there is a lack of open internet access, LibraryBox can bridge the gap of information delivery."

• Open Access - Association of Research Libraries

• Open Access and Publishing Guide - Emory University

• Open Access Guide - Virginia Tech

• Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)

• Open Access Research Guide - by Laura Burtle, Georgia State University

• Open Access Week

• Open Culture

• Open Data Commons

• Open Repositories Conference

• Project Gutenberg

• Public Knowledge

• Unglue It

    Articles

• Anderson, Rick. "The Forbidden Forest: Thinking About Open Access and Library Subscriptions." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org, 21 Feb. 2017.

• Parsons, John. "Supporting Open Access." - libraryjournal.com, 20 Feb. 2017.

• Shapiro, Phil. "Libraries have become a broadband lifeline to the cloud for students." - arstechnica.com, 3 March 2017.

• Hellman, Eric. "AI Bots are Destroying Open Access." go-to-hellman.blogspot.com, 21 March 2025.

Related Materials

• Call for Interoperable Ebook Standards in the Academic Book Market (February 25, 2025)

• Readers’ Bill of Rights for Digital Books

• Data Advocacy for All

• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (UNESCO)

• Library Futures

• Research Libraries Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence (Association of Research Libraries, April 2024)