Course Material Guide 

Take the worry out of Copyright compliance.

Send submissions to the Electronic Readings Service ereading@uow.edu.au

or submit your request at the Library using the Electronic Readings Submission Form. 

Copyright Enquiries,
Noel Broadhead ext. 8164

Ereading Enquiries, ext. 3331

Materials can be submitted as:

Print items (book sections, journal articles, original text, quality photocopies).

PDF, Word or PowerPoint files.

Your submission should include full bibliographic details.

The Electronic Readings Service provides a centralised service for the submission, processing, production and copyright management of all readings to be made available online. Electronic readings (ereadings) can link to digital documents such as fulltext database articles, electronic journals and electronic books in addition to documents that you provide.

You must use the Electronic Readings Service each time you wish to make third party copyright material available online. Third party copyright material is anything not created by UOW staff.

You must not scan your own materials and make them available on your own eLearning site. Your eLearning site will include a link to ereadings.

All ereadings will include a copyright notice as required by the Copyright Act, and authorised access will be restricted to students and staff of the University.

Copying and communication of copyright material for educational purposes is governed by a statutory licence under Part VB of the Copyright Act. The Act specifies the 'reasonable portion' of a copyright work or periodical publication which can be copied or communicated. Under the provisions of the Act, a reasonable portion is defined as:

• hard copy to digital copying of works: 10% of the the number of pages in a work, or if the work is divided into chapters, one chapter.

• digital to digital copying of works: 10% of the number of words in a work, or if the work is divided into chapters, one chapter.

• copying of periodical publications: one article per issue of a periodical publication (whether copied in hard copy or digital format). Two or more articles cannot be copied from the same periodical publication unless the articles relate to the same specific subject matter.

One portion of a literary work may be made available online at any given point in time.

All submissions to the Electronic Readings Service will be checked for copyright compliance.

Copyright Guidelines

Please use the quiz below to find out whether you need to submit material to the Electronic Readings Service.

 Electronic readings are available via the Library Catalogue.