[digital-copyright] Questionnaires and Surveys in ETD's

["Kunda, Sue" <Sue.Kunda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all.

We have graduate students (usually in Education and Counseling) who include
copies of surveys and questionnaires they use in their research when
submitting their work to our digital repository. Some of these instruments
clearly indicate their copyright status while others don't have any copyright
statement at all. Some appear to still be in circulation but others appear to
be "orphan works" -- especially when the questionnaire is included in an older
thesis.

There are times when a reader would need to see the entire questionnaire to
make sense of the thesis, but some theses might be able to stand alone without
including the entire questionnaire.

Do you have some words of wisdom for me when it comes to including (possibly)
copyrighted questionnaires and surveys in electronic theses and
dissertations?

Thanks,
Sue

________________________________
Sue Kunda
Digital Scholarship Librarian
OSU Libraries & Press
121 The Valley Library
Corvallis, OR  97331
sue.kunda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
541-737-7262

________________________________
Sue Kunda
Digital Scholarship Librarian
OSU Libraries & Press
121 The Valley Library
Corvallis, OR  97331
sue.kunda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
541-737-7262