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Types of academic materials Section 1 There will be occasions during the course of your work when you will create materials that are not intended for use by students at your institution. Such materials, e.g. a thesis or dissertation that you have written, notes created solely for your own personal use or a novel/poem, are sometimes referred to as "scholarly materials". It is likely that your institution will own any IP in academic materials. However, you, as an individual, may own any IP in scholarly materials. (See Section 3 – IP Ownership). Q: I completed my thesis six years ago. Until a year ago, it was placed on restricted access at my institution's library. When I wrote my thesis, I put together some accompanying notes that were for my benefit only. I have now realised that these notes could be a useful tool for students taking my latest module, Informatics Kinetics. I am proposing to allow students access to these notes through a VLE that I have created. Are my notes "academic materials" or "scholarly materials"? And how will their status affect the ownership of the IP in them? A: Your notes are both an academic tool and materials that you have put together in your time for your own benefit and which may not have been created in the course of your employment. As they were first a tool created solely for your own personal use, it may be that they are scholarly materials and are owned by you. Sometimes, research institutions waive their rights of ownership in the copyright in these materials. The key is to check your own institution's IP policy. 5