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Copyright 101

Learn about the basics of copyright, including how it affects your rights as a scholarly author. This one-module class is geared toward graduate students and faculty.

Fair use

Learn about how and when to rely on fair use in reusing copyrighted works and how it can support scholarship and teaching. This one-module class is geared toward graduate students and faculty.

Creative Commons

Learn about how Creative Commons can help you easily and legally reuse material from other people in your scholarship and instruction. This one-module class is geared toward graduate students and faculty.

Open Educational Resources

Learn about how you can use open educational resources in your class to help ensure students financial issues don’t bar students ability to access their course materials. This six-module class is geared toward instructors and should take about two hours to complete.

Conducting a Literature Review

Learn about strategies for writing a literature review paper, including searching the literature, organizing sources, reading and evaluating research, and writing and editing the paper. This class is designed for graduate students and should take about one hour to complete, with extra optional activities.

ORCID Introduction

Learn about the ORCID iD, which offers researchers a unique identifier to help distinguish them and their works, including how it can help researchers and how to set up and edit an account. Aimed at graduate students and faculty, the course should take about 10-15 minutes to complete.

An Introduction to Evidence Syntheses

Learn strategies and tools for conducting major evidence synthesis projects such as systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and meta-analyses. The six-module course is geared toward graduate students and faculty and should take about 2-3 hours to complete.

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