NHS Scotland Copyright Guidance
Help with copyright and other intellectual property rights (IPR).
Copyright law is often vague and open to being tested in court. Here we aim to give guidance and support on some of the most common questions.
- NHS Scotland hold a CLA Licence+ which gives us additional rights to copying and sharing information more information.
- To check if we have access to a clinical tool or measure please go to https://scottish.sharepoint.com/sites/NHSScotlandToolsandMeasuresCatalogue (you will need to request access for this sharepoint site when you first visit)
- View the presentation Copyright and Creative Commons 101, Alison Forde, Dec 2022.
- Complete our eLearning module An introduction to copyright.
You can obtain further support from copyright_requests@nes.scot.nhs.uk or ask your local NHS librarian .
Open access and publishing
The British Library Scholarly Communications Toolkit has some useful, downloadable guides:
