This is one of the first online tutorials for use with students on the details of the Fair Use Guidelines that were created in the 1976 Copyright Act. Tutorials and quizzes are included. This addresses the amount of material that is allowed to be used in educational settings. Details of the amount of web resources, multimedia, and single or multiple copies of copyrighted material is covered.

To properly cite the above image of the copyright symbol, you need to collect this information.

Author:

Description or title of image:

Date of download:

URL (Internet Address): Then put it all together like this: Siddhartha Patel, Copyright-symbol.jpg [Online Image], May 8, 2006, http://www.iit.edu/~patesid1/sources.html

UT Austin has developed "Rules of Thumb" for students to easily determine the fair use guidelines of copyrighted materials based on the type of project being created.

The Connected Teacher has created and easy to read and follow list of examples of how to cite Internet Resources.

A reference guide to citing Internet resources that includes many styles, such as MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, and others. This includes citation models for web sites, email, forum postings, listserv messages, newsgroups, real–time communication, Telnet, FTP, and gopher sites.

The Citation Machine web site creates your MLA or APA citation for you. You much chose which citation style you need then fill in the information to the online form. Once you submit the information, the citation is ready for you to copy and paste onto your document.