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This link opens in a new windowCopyright law considers loading a copy of copyrighted content into Backboard to be fundamentally different to providing a link to the content as you have 1) made a copy of the resource and 2) distributed it. You will generally need to provide a link instead of a copy.
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COM Library collects links to top publicly accessible content to share with your students. At the very least you should be able to provide links to the content. Get them from the guide below.
More specific open access sources are also available by subject in all our subject guides.
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