Copyright Licenses

The JIBC Library is responsible for the administration of the copyright licenses that the University subscribes to. Use this chart to find out what you are permitted to do with particular licensed resources.

 Database Persistent Links? (use in reading lists or Blackboard) Upload to Blackboard? 1 Coursepacks? 1  Interlibrary loan?
Academic Search Premier yes yes  no  yes 
Access Medicine (Goodman & Gilman's and Tintinalli's) yes  no  no  no 
Alt Healthwatch yes  yes  no  yes 
BC Building Code * no  no  no  no 
BC Fire Code * no   no  no   no  
Bibliography of Native North Americans yes  yes  no  yes 
Biomedical Reference Collection yes  yes  no  yes 
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Reference Center yes  yes  no yes 
Business Source Complete yes  yes  no  yes 
Canadian Newsstand yes  yes  yes  yes 
Canadian Research Index yes  yes  yes  yes 
CBCA Complete (inc. CBCA Reference and Current Events, CBCA Business, and CBCA Education) yes  yes  yes  yes 
CINAHL yes  yes no  yes 
Conference Board of Canada no  yes  yes 3 no 
Criminal Justice Abstracts yes  yes  yes  yes 
Criminal Justice Periodical Index yes  yes  yes  yes 
 eBook Collection yes no no no
EBMR: Evidence Medicine Based Reviews yes  yes  no  yes 
eCPS (Conpendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties) no  yes  yes  yes 
Encyclopedia Britannica Online  yes  no  no  yes 
ERIC yes  yes  no  yes 
E-STAT yes  yes  yes   
FIREINF yes  yes  yes  yes 
Health Source: Consumer Edition yes  yes  no  yes 
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition  yes  yes  no  yes 
Homeland Security Digital Library yes  yes  yes  yes 
IngentaConnect  see 4    
Know BC yes  yes  yes  yes 
Medline (EBSCO) yes  yes  no  yes 
Medline (OVID) yes  yes  no  yes 
Military and Government Collection yes  yes  no  yes 
National Film Board CAMPUS 6 yes n/a n/a n/a
NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts yes  yes  no  yes 
NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Fire Codes no  no  see 2 no 
PsycINFO yes  yes  no  yes 
QP LegalEze * no  no  no  no 
Quicklaw   no  no  yes  yes 
Quickscribe * no  no  no  no 
Regional Business News yes  yes  no  yes 
SocINDEX  yes  yes  yes  yes 
Stat!Ref 5 yes  no  no  no 

According to the Intellectual Property Policy of the Government of B.C., "Legislation may NOT be reproduced by or for members of the public for purposes other than personal use and legal use without the prior written consent of the Intellectual Property Program." For additional information please refer to the following website: "Guidelines Covering the Reproduction of Provincial Legislation".

Each such item shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title and author of the extract, title and author of the work, and the publisher.

"Liberal use of NFPA fact sheets and news releases is allowable with attribution.  Please use the following: "Reproduced from NFPA's website, © NFPA (year).""

"This permission consists of the right to use limited content, for general reference or educational purposes only, in written analyses and in the reporting of results, conclusions and forecasts. This also permits the citation of “limited amounts” of supporting data extracted from the Content in such documents. The Conference Board of Canada defines “limited amounts” as not exceeding 400 words or a maximum of 2 data tables or graphs per document. In such cases, the source of the data or analysis must be acknowledged in all documents and communications by providing the following source citation at the bottom of each analysis, table or graph.
Source (or adapted from, if appropriate): The Conference Board of Canada, name of product, reference date of product." 

4  To obtain permission to reprint articles or images from content hosted on ingentaconnect, you will need to contact the publisher of the book or journal directly.  Only content which is freely available (indicated with this icon ) may be shared. 

5 Check the Copyright Page for each individual text.

You have permission to use all NFB CAMPUS materials (i.e. films, interactive works, text, still images, study guides) for educational, non-commercial purposes only.

Last updated May 4, 2012