Copyright Policy for Course & E-Reserves
The Montgomery College Libraries adheres to and is in compliance with the copyright principles and protections as outlined in Title 17 of the Copyright Act of 1976 which includes the rights and principles of exemptions as outlined in Section 107 (Fair Use).  The Libraries will follow the principles of Fair Use as outlined in Section 107 for placing materials on reserve. 

• The Purpose & Character of the Use
• The Nature of the Work Used
• The Amount of the Work Used

• The Market Effect on the Use of the Work

(Chart used with permission of the University Copyright Office of Purdue University.)
 

Principles & Procedures for Placing Materials on Course Reserves
& E-Reserves

• The request to place materials on Reserves will initiate with the faculty who are expected to apply the principles of Fair Use.   All uses will be non-commercial and for educational purposes only.
• Copies to be placed on Reserve, Xeroxed, or scanned should be owned by either the Libraries or by the faculty members themselves.
• Some scanned documents will be in pdf format.  Therefore, you will need to download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don't already have this application.
• Personal copies may be placed on Reserve.  Please identify and label all personal components you want placed on Reserve:
  
       Example:  Last Name of Instructor, Course, Title of Item, #
       Example:  Fechter, Spanish 101, Arriba!, #1
   
• Personal items may be marked with a Montgomery College stamp and
  a security tag.  If you do not wish your items to be marked, please
  let us know.        
• The Libraries require 7 business days notice to place items on Reserve.  Please bring print copies to the Circulation Desk of your campus library.  Electronic documents can also be submitted to in Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel or by any other College-supported software OR by a persistent link or other digital object identifier(DOI).
• The amount of the work to be placed on Reserve will be taken into consideration when deciding whether an item falls within fair use.  Longer works will not be placed on reserve without obtaining copyright clearance or the permission of the copyright holder.
• Items in the public domain, those copyrighted before 1923 or produced by the U.S. Federal government or works licensed under the Creative Commons agreement, can be placed on reserve without consideration of Fair Use.
• A notice of copyright will appear on all physical materials places on reserve and an electronic statement of copyright will appear on all electronic reserve items.
• Access to reserve materials is limited to the faculty and students of Montgomery College.  Remote users will be required to login with a username and password.  If you want additional protection on your documents so that only your current students can access your items, please notify us on the form so we can provide additional password protection for these documents.
• Reserve materials, including electronic reserves, will be removed each semester at the end of the semester.  If faculty wish to use the same materials again in subsequent semesters, copyright clearance or the permission of the copyright holder must be obtained for each instance of use.