Copyright in higher professional education
Using copyrighted material
According to the Copyright Act, it is permissible to use a short section of a copyrighted work for academic purposes. In this LibGuide you will find several guidelines for the correct handling of copyright and study materials.
Teacher and copyright
When creating a lesson, a teacher will have to deal with copyright issues. How to include videos, texts, and images in a (digital) reader?
And how to upload them to the digital learning environment?
The lecturer as user or author
As a lecturer you can be both a user and an author of information. If you are the user, you may want to copy an article from a journal or a chapter from a book to your reader, or scan these and place them on Moodle. You are then subject to copyright laws as this is not your own work and the material is protected by copyright. Furthermore, specific higher professional education institutional rules apply. Stichting UvO and the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences have made agreements about this in the Reader Agreement.
Who holds the rights?
According to the Copyright Act, as the producer of the work, you retain the rights to that work. However, the collective bargaining agreement for the higher professional education sector 2021-2022, Article E-7, copyright law and industrial property states that if the employee has produced work in the execution of his duties for the benefit of the employer, the employer maintains the right to that work. Contractual employment is required for this to apply. If these requirements are met, copyright belongs to Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.
Audiovisual material
Take a look at Audiovisual Materials if you would like to find out more about the use of audiovisual materials for teaching.
Publishing for researchers
As a researcher, you can be both an author and a user of information. On this portal you will mainly find information if you are an author and want to publish.
You can publish your work in two ways:
- as open access
- with a publisher
Open Access Publication
Open Access is a global trend based on providing unrestricted access to research outputs, especially research that is financed by public funding.
Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, as an institute, endorses and encourages the Open Access availability of its educational and research-related knowledge products so making a contribution to knowledge creation and knowledge circulation. Zuyd University of Applied Sciences emphasized this intention by signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access together with all other Dutch universities of applied sciences.
Examples of knowledge products include:
Zuyd does not yet have a publication policy. The library is making an effort to make knowledge products available open access through the in-house institutional repository (SURFsharekit). These are then displayed on Publinova, on HBO Kennisbank, on OpenAire (formerly NARCIS), and through Google Scholar.
Elsevier Open Access Deal
"This agreement between Elsevier and several parties ensures that the costs of open access publishing (APCs) are covered under the terms of this agreement. Researchers can publish in more than 2,200 'hybrid' and full OA journals. The deal has recently been extended and will run at least until the end of 2026, with a possible extension into 2027.
More information can be found on the publisher's website.
Publishing through a publisher
If you decide to publish your work through a publisher, several different agreements can be made. You can assign the copyright to the publisher, but there are also options where you can partially retain copyright. You can confirm this in a License to Publish.
Auteursrechten.nl is the central place for reliable information on copyright issues and related laws and regulations. Here you will find legal information, practical resources and various tools.
If you publish Open Access, this does not mean that you waive all your rights as the author. With a Creative Commons licence you keep the rights to your work but you clearly denote how others are allowed to use your work. This includes the circulation, sharing, and in the case of some licences, even the revision of the work.
