WorldShare is available for current TIU students, staff, and faculty.
Most of the time we are able to obtain the item for you from a library that lends for free. When an item is only available from a library that charges a lending fee, we will contact you before processing the request to verify if you are willing to pay to borrow the item. If you agree to pay the fee, then that amount will be put on your circulation account.
Each request is different, depending on the availability of the item. Average time from the placing of the request until receiving the item is 4 days for articles and 16 days for books.
You will receive an e-mail when the copy or book is available. A PDF copy of articles or chapters will be available in your WorldShare account. Books and other physical items will be available at the circulation desk.
Some books are available to be renewed - it depends on the policy of the lending library. If a book can be renewed, a "Renew" button will appear next to the book in your WorldShare account. Articles and chapter copies cannot be renewed.
Textbooks and books on reserve cannot be requested through WorldShare. In addition, while you are welcome to request dissertations, please be aware that sometimes they are not available to borrow from other libraries.
The purpose of this checklist is to provide patrons with guidance about the reproduction and distribution of their work and the work of others in the course of teaching, researching, and publication of their work.
Copyright law in the United States is firmly gounded in the goal of capturing and leveraging expressions of new ideas. It explicitly recognizes that the desire to create is predicated on the ability to access existing expressions of intellectual creativity and utilize them as platforms for fresh innovation. Moreover, copyright law provides robust mechanisms that empower individuals to utilize existing expressions of ideas to articulate opinions, provide criticism, and express dissernt.
The Rolfing Library ILL department upholds the values of academic scholarship through the creation and distribution of ideas. In line with these values, we recognize and fully support the importance of adhering to copyright law.
Fair use is based on four elements, as listed in the law (Section 107, fair use category):
Please review this checklist carefully and determine whether your planned use falls within the favoring of fair use.
OK, so the Copyright Genie can't grant copyright wishes, but it can take the magic out of copyright by:
This tool is designed to help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code. The tool will help you collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation by providing you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records, which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.
A tool that will help you determine whether an item is still under copyright.
Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Code allows libraries and archives, under certain circumstances, to make reproductions of copyrighted materials without the permission of the copyright holder. This simple tool can help you determine if your reproduction is covered by Section 108 and collect information to support your use of the exception.
The U.S. Copyright Code provides for the educational use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder under certain conditions. Use this free online tool to find out if your intended use meets the requirements set out in the law. This tool can also help you collect information detailing your educational use and provide you with a summary in PDF format.
