Your instructor may allow you to present the results of your analysis in a different form. This will challenge you to think how else you can express your understanding of of the information you have gathered and for what audience you would like to shape this information.
The list below contains tools you might use for creating various types of content.
Blogs
Images
Data visualization: infographics, graphs, and charts
Tools for narrative recasts
Presentations
Videos and movies
Web pages and sites
Infographics
Posters
UC Libraries have the equipment, software, and expertise to help you put together a fantastic presentation.
As a digital citizen you have the right to access a huge amount of information in various formats and use it in multiple ways. However you need to remember that even resources on the public Web are not there for grabs - someone owns the copyright to them!
Copyright is a form of protection given to the authors or creators of original works, including content published on the Web. What that means is that, as the content author, you alone have the right to do any of the following or to let others do any of the following:
Anyone who exploits any of the exclusive rights of copyright without the copyright owner's permission commits copyright infringement.
The copyright law establishes some limitations on the rights of the copyright owner. One of the most important limitations on the exclusive rights is the doctrine of "Fair Use," which allows limited copying of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes.
The "Fair Use Fundamentals" infographic (PDF file) explains what fair use is, why it is important, who use it, and provides some examples of fair use.
The “Fair Use in a Day in the Life of a College Student” infographic (PDF file) created by the Association of Research Libraries shows how a college student relies on fair use numerous times in a typical day.
Unless you are absolutely sure that your use of material falls under "Fair Use" provisions, you should either seek permission to use an author's work or use works from the public domain.
Public domain is a term that applies to creative works which can be re-used by anyone in any way, and for any purpose. Works in the public domain fall into three basic categories:
The links below are examples of copyright-free resources.
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Attribution of sources
Whether the material you are using is copyrighted, copyright, or covered by the Creative Commons License, it needs to be credited properly. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism, a severe form of academic misconduct. Learn more about citing sources and avoiding plagiarism.
