Grammarly Premium for Education is a comprehensive spelling, grammar, and PLAGIARISM checker application. Everyone in the Northern College community with a Northern College email address can sign up to use Grammarly for free.
To sign up for Grammarly, click here.
If you experience any issues getting started, please email libraryt@northern.on.ca or text 705-302-1076 for help.
Copyright means the right to copy intellectual property that belongs to someone other than you. Copyright has rights for both authors and users in an effort to create a balanced and fair use of copyrighted works.
In Canada, copyright protection is automatic upon the creation of a work. You own the copyright for a work as soon as you create something original regardless of the format:
Only the copyright owner has the right to decide when and how the work is copied.
And remember even if a work does not have a copyright symbol ©, the work is still protected under The Copyright Act.
Open access provides access to research material that is free of all restrictions on access and free of many restrictions on use. Terms of use are set by the individual creator and range from partial access to unrestricted use. The user must read the terms of use to know how the material can be used.
Examples of Open Access sites are OpenDOAR and DOAJ.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that enables creators to share their materials via a set of copyright licenses. There are standardized licenses that give the public permission to share and use works based on the rights the creator has chosen. Rights vary from some rights reserved to all rights reserved. The user must read the accompanying license to know how the material can be used.
