All staff members including non-HEI employees providing teaching, research or consultancy services within the university. This includes guest lecturers.
Use of copyright material is allowed for teaching purposes under Irish Copyright Law, but limits apply. These limits are determined by the ICLA Educational Licence agreement and an expectation that all copyright works will be adequately attributed.
Each course of study can copy the following amounts from one work:
or where greater, 10% of the same publication determined by 10% of the total number of pages.
Also, the number of copies should equal a copy for each class member and relevant teaching staff
See the ICLA Higher Education User Guidelines for further details.
The following works are not covered under the ICLA Licence:
Open Educational Resources OERs are available under Creative Commons Licenses for educational purposes where the authors have allowed for their work to be shared and used by others.
Search the following for alternative texts in the public domain:
Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Resources
OER Commons - digital library of open educational resources