A Bibliographical Overview of "Copyright Literacy" as a Key Issue in Memory Institution Management

Abstract

This publication discusses the issue of copyright literacy as a key element in the management of memory institutions in the context of digital information environment and includes issues regarding the law enforcement and the use of Open Access (OA) documents and protected authorship. The study is part of the project 'Copyright policies of libraries and other cultural institutions', DFNI-K01/0002-21.11.2012. The bibliographical review covers the following main subject areas: Copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives; Library Copyright Policy; Information Literacy and Copyright Literacy; Plagiarism, Copyright conventions and directives; Public domain, Orphan works, Out-of-print works; OA, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Repositories, Licenses, Fair Use. The range of the sources includes monographs, collections of articles, e-publications from the period 2003-2013, which were searched in catalogs of scientific and university libraries, free repositories, data bases (DB) and e-platforms with paid access. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013.