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Copyright is involved in many of the educational and informational activities that take place in the environs of higher education, and not only professors but also students and librarians should know its main principles and rules. The aim of this paper is to identify the main differences and similarities in knowledge of the basic matters of copyright literacy among these three sectors of the university community: faculty, students, and librarians. To this end, the results of three different questionnaires in two Spanish universities (Extremadura and Granada) were analyzed. The results reveal that essential mistakes and misunderstandings are shared by all three sectors, although there are some interesting differences as well.
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This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competition (Project DER2014-53012-C2-2-R).
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Fernández-Molina, JC., Muriel-Torrado, E. (2018). Copyright Literacy in the Academic Field: Analysis of the Differences Between Faculty, Students and Librarians. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_29
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