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Dual Credit

A Guide to Library Services for Victoria College-affiliated dual credit students, faculty, and librarians.

Library Resources

Course Reserves and Book Requests

Please email the Jennifer Stewart, the VC Library Director, for assistance with course reserves or book requests. 

Library Instruction 

The VC Library would be more than happy to provide instruction for your class, either in-person or virtually. Please contact Jennifer for more information. 

Interlibrary Loans 

Click here to request an Interlibrary Loan.  All articles and book chapters will be emailed to you.  For books, select "UHV Library" as your pickup site, and Library staff will get in touch about getting the book to you.

Copyright and Fair Use

What is copyright?  

Copyright refers to the exclusive legal right of the owner to reproduce, print, publish, perform, display or record something usually of literary, artistic, or musical material.  It also gives the copyright owner the ability to share those rights. To be copyrighted a work must be original and it must exist is some type of physical form for an amount of time.  In most cases, copyright last 70 years after the death of the author.  

What doesn't copyright protect?

When it comes to copyright, it is more helpful to identify what it does not cover.  Copyright does not cover:

  • Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, or discoveries
  • Works that are not fixed in a tangible form (such as a choreographic work that has not been notated or recorded or an improvisational speech that has not been written down)
  • Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans
  • Familiar symbols or designs
  • Mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring
  • Mere listings of ingredients or contents 

Everything else is coved by copyright.

More about copyright

Fair Use

Fair Use is a way to protect yourself from copyright infringement.  It allows for the use of copyrighted material for limited and transformative purposes, such as commenting upon, criticizing, or parodying a work.     

If you are having trouble figuring out if a source you want to use in the classroom is under copyright check out the links below or ask the librarian.  

Open Education Resources (OERs)

An Open Education Resource (OER) is a learning or research material that reside in the public domain or is under copyright that has been released under an open license. They can be in any format. OERs are able to be adapted, copied, or accessed at little to no cost. 

Below are some OER resources you can use in your classroom. 

B.C. Open Collection -  A curated selection of openly licensed resources.  

Critical Commons  -  As quoted from the website, Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. 

Open Textbook Library -  Textbooks that are able to be freely used, and adapted for no cost. 

OpenStax -  The materials here fall under the Creative Commons license.  

OER Commons -  This website has interactive mini-lessons, open textbooks, and university courses. 

OER Libguide -  Learn more about the basic of OER and why they are important for students.