Copyright Database and Digitization – Friend or Foe?
Advancements in technology often result in new challenges. As at many universities Australian Catholic University has a copyright database that digitised documents are loaded to. Loading of this electronic material was previously undertaken by the Electronic Services Unit. Now the responsibility of loading the documents has now changed to the local campuses (there are 6 campuses along the east coast of Australia). Items that can be placed on the copyright database include book excerpts, scanned copies of journal articles, sound files and electronic copies of artistic works. At MacKillop campus library technicians undertake these duties. Some of the additional skills required for these duties includes scanning, searching the copyright database, searching electronic resources (both e-books and e-journals). To enable these tasks to be accomplished, additional software is required. Examples of how items are located and loaded on the database will be included.