Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries

Citation
Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (Jan. 2012) (full-text).

Overview
This is a code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic and research library community. It enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library community itself.

It identifies eight situations that represent the library community's current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials and describes a carefully derived consensus within the library community about how those rights should apply in certain recurrent situations.