Students need easily accessible and affordable digital course materials now more than ever. If you are experiencing challenges obtaining course material, the IU Libraries have resources to help instructors in all disciplines find and evaluate digital course materials. We can help you navigate options for your course one-on-one. The first option to consider is Open Educational Resources. These are digital course materials that you can legally customize to fit your needs. Contact Sarah Hare for more information. The library can assist you with finding, evaluating, and creating these freely available materials. Another option to consider, especially if you normally use a physical book in your course or your students utilize course reserves in person often, is fair use. Fair use is a legal doctrine that permits the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Fair use is important if you’re considering scanning large portions of a book or journal for your students to access in Canvas. Generally, we recommend that you link to electronic book chapters, but you can upload PDFs of journal articles after you have downloaded them from a library database. IU has resources to help instructors analyze their intended use of copyrighted materials and to make informed decisions about use. For more information, please email Naz Pantaloni, Copyright Program Librarian. If you find that you are able to use copyrighted materials as a result of your fair use analysis, our Document Delivery Services unit can help you with creating scans for Canvas use. Contact DDS for more information. Request Article Delivery is a program provided by DDS that supplies digital copies of physical book chapters. You can use this service by accessing your ILL account and completing the request form. In addition, IU Libraries may have or may be able to obtain eBooks, videos, and other e-resources to support your courses. The library can, for example, purchase multi-user eBooks for some titles. It’s important to note that you will need to send students to the eBook publisher’s platform to read these books and publishers sometimes impose limits on printing and simultaneous users. A number of library databases also include media particularly relevant to classroom use. Kanopy, for example, provides access to a wide range of films and documentaries. It can be helpful to discuss eBook and database options with your subject librarian in order to ensure long-term access for your students. Finally, in response to the pandemic, many vendors and publishers are also making scholarly content temporarily available for free. Check out our Temporary Resources Guide for more information. Please note that access to this content may change at any time. If you have any questions regarding these digital resources, please contact your subject librarian at: libraries.indiana.edu/specialists.