The Thesis Defence Room is equipped with a lectern, LED projector, screen, internet connection (including wireless), videoconferencing capabilities, rolling whiteboard, and a telephone connection. Overhead projector can be provided upon request.

Presenters are to bring their own laptop. There are hookups to the LED projector available for PCs; Mac users will require their own adapter.

There is a round table at which the student and examining committee can sit, as well as tables and chairs for an audience of 24 people.

The library due date format will either be mm/dd/yy or yyyy/mm/dd.

Online:

Pay your fines and fees online by logging into your Library Record in the Library's Catalogue.

Note:

• If you pay online, you must pay the full amount owing.
• An email receipt will be sent to you upon payment.

In person:

W.A.C. Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby) accepts cash, personal cheques (with proper identification), debit, and credit cards.

Belzberg (SFU Vancouver) and Fraser (SFU Surrey) libraries accept cash and personal cheques only.

By phone:

Please review points #9 Disruption of Service (under Policy section) and #10 During disruptions of normal Library services (under Procedures section) contained in SFU Library Loans Policy

Where do I return books when the library is closed? See Where do I return books when the library is closed?

Contacts: Circulation/Loans desk: 778.782.4345 (Bennett Library, SFU Burnaby), 778.782.5050 (Belzberg Library, SFU Vancouver ) or 778.782.7411 (Fraser Library, SFU Surrey).

Being out of print does not mean that a book is no longer protected by copyright. Fair dealing for educational use allows making copies of "short excerpts," and other educational exceptions in the Copyright Act allow other specific uses; see the Copyright and Teaching infographic for copying guidelines for classroom use. If a longer portion is required and the book is still protected by copyright, you should contact the publisher to request permission to use the material. The SFU Bookstore can request permission for you, and distribute copies of the work once permission is obtained. The Copyright Clearance Fund may be able to support payment of copyright license fees for this copying - details about the Fund and eligibility are on this page.

SFU instructors own copyright in their lectures, and students own copyright in their presentations and assignments, as per SFU Policy R30.03 Intellectual Property Policy, but you may not own the copyright to all of the content within your lecture or presentation. Many educational uses of copyright protected materials are allowed for through fair dealing and educational exceptions to the Copyright Act. However, what you can display in the classroom may be different from what you can distribute to students.

It is important that access to the material is limited to the students enrolled in the course and that the guidelines outlined on the Copyright and Teaching Infographic are respected if the slides will be handed out rather than just displayed in the classroom. If you need to make use of a greater volume of material than that which is permitted through the fair dealing policy or other exceptions, you must:

1. Remove copyright materials from the slides before creating the handouts,

2. Request that SFU’s Copyright Officer evaluate whether a particular instance of copying or communication of a copyright-protected work is permitted under fair dealing or another exception, or

3. Seek express written permission from the copyright holder to copy and communicate that content. Be sure to keep a copy of any permission you receive.

Where do you look for citation information?

There are two places to get the information you need for a book citation: the title page, and the reverse side of the title page (sometimes called the verso).

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Cover

The book cover will have some, but not all, of the information you need for a citation.

Title page

A title page will generally have the title, subtitle, author, and publisher. Some title pages will also include publisher location and edition information. 

Title Information doesn't want to be free

Subtitle Laws for the internet age

Author Cory Doctorow

Publisher McSweeney's

Publisher location San Francisco

Reverse side of title page (verso)

The reverse side of the title page will contain the rest of the information you need -- plus more! Typically what is needed for a citation is the date, author, publisher, and publisher location.

Date 2014

Publisher McSweeney's

Publisher location San Francisco

 More help

• What information do I need to cite a journal article?
• What information do I need to cite a webpage?

Questions? Ask us!

Journal articles (also called academic or scholarly or peer-reviewed articles) can be found either online or in print. For help finding journal articles using the Library Catalogue and databases see our guide.

Unsure what peer reviewed means? See What is a peer-reviewed journal? 

Electronic article

When you find an article online, using resources such as the Library Catalogue or databases subscribed to by SFU, you are using an electronic journal article.

Typically when citing an article you need the following: author, title of article, date of publication, title of publication, volume, issue, page numbers, and either a DOI or URL.

Author(s) Michael Kainsose, Marc Schafe

Article title Consistencies far beyond chance: an analysis of learner perceptions of reflective symmetry

Date 2013

Journal title South African Journal of Education

Volume 33

Issue 2

Page numbers 1-17

DOI/URL no DOI for this article

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Print article

Author(s) Kathleen Azali, Andreiw Budiman

Article title Design it yourself surabaya: Reflective notes on designing a festival

Date July 2016

Journal title PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies

Volume 13

Issue 2

Page numbers 1-9

DOI/URL http://dx/doi.org/10.5130/portal.v13i2.5024 

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 More help

• What information do I need to cite a book?
• What information do I need to cite a webpage?

You can find many types of sources online, including websites, webpages (parts of websites), blog posts, articles, and reports or other files (often PDFs) downloaded from websites. Depending on the type of source you use, you may have to follow different formatting guidelines. 

This page will help you to identify elements of a webpage for writing a citation.

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Typically you need an author, publication date, title of the article, name of the website organization (i.e. who owns it), and a URL for a webpage citation.

Elements of the webpage to use in your citation

Author:  No author information is given

Article title: New horizons' next target just got a lot more interesting

Date: August 3, 2017

Organization: NASA

Webpage URL: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-next-target-just-got-a-lot-more-interesting

Website URL: www.nasa.gov

 More help

• What information do I need to cite a book?
• What information do I need to cite a journal article?

Under section 29.21 of Canada's Copyright Act, an individual may "use an existing work... or copy of one... in the creation of a new work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists." This is colloquially known as the "mashup provision," as it was designed to allow things like recording a home video with music playing in the background, or creating a collage of photos or video clips, and uploading these resulting works online.

There are a number of conditions to this provision. First, the resulting new work must be created "solely for non-commercial purposes." This means you can't use this provision to create advertising or sell something. You must also cite the source, if it is "reasonable" to include this in your resulting work. You must be reasonably sure that the work you are using was not an infringing (illegal) copy of the original work (e.g. a pirated song or film). Finally, your resulting work must not negatively affect the market (i.e. serve as a substitute) for the original work.

For example, you might want to create a collage of photos and video clips of SFU events, with music in the background. This must not serve as an advertisement (whether for fundraising, to attract enrollment, or to sell anything relating to SFU or tickets to an event). You should attribute the creators of the photos, videos and music in your credits. Your photos, videos and music must come from legitimate sources. And your creation must be an original work, not a replacement for any of the original videos or music you have used.

SFU Archives is a great source for photos, footage and other material to work from.