Yes, as long as the content has not been posted in an infringing manner and there is no stated restriction on using the material. Do not embed, or link to, any material that you know, or suspect, has been illegally posted.
Yes, External Borrower cards can be purchased at the Circulation/Loans desk at the Bennett (SFU Burnaby), Belzberg (SFU Vancouver) or Fraser (SFU Surrey) Libraries.
See External Borrowers: Borrowing Library materials for rates and further information.
All SFU Libraries accept online payment with a credit card. In addition, Library Loans at the Bennett Library accepts cash, personal cheques (with proper identification), debit and credit cards for payment. Belzberg and Surrey Libraries accept cash and personal cheques (with proper identification).
Undergraduate/graduate students, faculty and staff are entitled to reciprocal borrowing privileges at UBC and many other universities and colleges across Canada. Note: UBC requires proof of a local address when issuing their community library card.
For details, including a list of member institutions and information about registering for this service, see Borrowing privileges at other universities: Borrowing Library Materials, or contact Circulation Desk staff at:
No. Access to SFU RefWorks has been discontinued as of December 31, 2017, and is no longer supported. Questions? Contact citation-managers@sfu.ca
See Citation management software and tools for alternatives to RefWorks.
Under fair dealing you may generally copy up to 10% of another person’s work, including images, for inclusion in your PowerPoint presentations that you display to students enrolled in your course. You can copy and display an entire single image from a collection of images (e.g. a single photograph from a book of photographs), or up to 10% of a stand-alone image that is not part of a larger collection. You may also put this image in Canvas.
Under the educational institution exceptions in the Copyright Act, you may display an entire work in the classroom, including a stand-alone image that is not part of a larger collection of images. To do so you must ensure that there is not a commercially available copy (obtainable within a reasonable time and price) in the format required (S29.4 of Copyright Act). If you subsequently put this image in Canvas, you must destroy/remove the file from Canvas within 30 days of the end of the course. Simply making the file inaccessible is insufficient. (See S30.01 of the Copyright Act). You may also copy an entire work found online as long as there is no technological protection measure and no "clearly visible notice" prohibiting the use.
See the Copyright and Teaching Infographic for full details.
It all depends on the wording of the Author/Publisher Agreement, sometimes called a Copyright Transfer Agreement, that you signed with the publisher of your work. Often times these agreements transfer most copyright in your work to the publisher, leaving you with very few rights to the work. If your Author/Publisher Agreement does not allow for you to re-publish the material in your thesis, you will need to contact the publisher and ask them for permission to use the work.
If you are planning on submitting work to be published, and you already know that you will want to later include this material in your thesis, try to ensure that you get wording in the Author/Publisher Agreement that allows you to include the material in your thesis. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) provides an author addendum and information about negotiating your publishing agreement here.
Yes, you can create a direct link yourself. Making Readings Available to Students describes several different ways to make required and supplementary readings available to students online and suggests the pros and cons of each option. Each option has specific benefits along with specific cautions, including copyright compliance.
Yes. Under fair dealing you may make copies of another person’s works and hand them out to students enrolled in your course. Please see the Copyright and Teaching Infographic for details and limits. You must adhere to the amount that may be copied under fair dealing.
Yes. The Application of Fair Dealing under Policy R30.04 permits the copying of an entire journal article. Copies may be handed out to the students enrolled in your course or you may post a copy of the article to Canvas. See the Copyright Infographic for further details on how you can share copyright protected materials for teaching.
You may play videos in class in the following circumstances: