The Reprographics Center serves faculty printing and copying needs. A completed work order signed by the person responsible for the department/school budget must accompany each order. For questions on printing specifications, faculty should call the Reprographics Center.
Single copies, or runs of not more than ten copies, may be made on photocopy machines in several locations on campus. Larger printing jobs must be processed in the Reprographics Center. Reprographics has a pick-up and delivery service and requests may be made by phone.

Copyright Laws

Copyright laws have an important effect on the teaching and research functions of the University. In many cases the issues are not clear and over time are being settled by the courts.

Below are a few guidelines provided by recent legal rulings.

FACULTY MAY NOT:

• Make multiple copies of a work for classroom use if it has already been copied for another class in the same institution
• Make multiple copies of a short poem, article, story, or essay from the same author more than once in a semester, or make multiple copies from the same collective work or periodical issue more than three times a semester
• Make multiple copies of works more than nine times in the same semester
• Make a copy of works to take the place of an anthology
• Make a copy of consumable materials, such as workbooks

FACULTY MAY:

• Make a single copy for use in scholarly research, or in teaching, or in preparation for teaching a class, of the following:
  • A chapter from a book
  • An article from a periodical or newspaper
  • A short story, short essay, or short poem, whether or not from a collected work
  • A chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon, or picture from a book, periodical, or newspaper
• Make multiple copies for classroom use only, and not to exceed one per student in a class, of the following:
  • A complete poem, if it is less than 250 words and printed on not more than two pages
  • An excerpt from a longer poem, if it is less than 250 words
  • A complete article, story, or essay, if it is less than 2,500 words
  • An excerpt from a prose work, if it is less than 1,000 words or 10 percent of the work, whichever is less
  • One chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon, or picture per book or periodical

A LIBRARY MAY:

• For interlibrary-loan purposes:
  • Make up to six copies a year of a periodical published within the last five years
  • Make up to six copies a year of small excerpts from longer works
• Make copies of unpublished works for purposes of preservation and security
• Make copies of published works for purposes of replacement of damaged copies
• Make copies of out-of-print works that cannot be obtained at a fair price

Library policy regarding copies of copyrighted materials states that the reserve desk:

• Will accept a single copy of a chapter, article, or short story. The copy should include a notice of copyright.
• Will not accept the same item from the same faculty member from semester to semester unless permission has been granted by the copyright holder. (The library will provide instructions for requesting such permission.)
• Will not accept multiple copies or items that exceed the guidelines of brevity (unless permission has been granted).

Additional information are available at the Reference Desk in the Ryan Library.

MEDIA SERVICES WILL:

• Duplicate non-copyrighted media materials in their entirety
• Duplicate copyrighted materials in accordance with written permission granted by the copyright holder
• Duplicate up to 10% or 3-minutes (whichever is less) of copyrighted motion media items for classroom use
• Duplicate up to 10% or 30 seconds (whichever is less) of copyrighted audio media items for classroom use

MEDIA SERVICES WILL NOT:

• Duplicate any materials in violation of copyright law
• Duplicate any copyrighted materials for sale or further distribution