Copyright Literacy Survey (CoLIS)
Through this survey we aimed to collect data about the knowledge and awareness of LIS students regarding copyright related issues in different countries and determine the gap, if any, in their knowledge to built up recommandations for LIS education.

The copyright literacy survey originated in Bulgaria and was the work of Dr Tania Todorova, Professor at the State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria. She was funded by the National Science Fund of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science to carry out a survey to investigate copyright policies and the levels of knowledge among librarians. The survey was extended in 2014 to France, Turkey and Croatia and the findings presented at ECIL 2014. This is where we first discovered the international work. Since this date the copyright literacy survey has been carried out in 10 other countries – Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom and the USA.
You can find out more about the research project “Copyright Policies of libraries and other cultural institutions.”
You can download the report written by Tania Todorova in October 2016.
Posts about CoLIS
Understanding librarians’ experiences of copyright: Findings from a phenomenographic study of UK information professionals
Librarians and information professionals increasingly need to deal with copyright issues in their work, however…
Information professionals and copyright literacy: a multinational study
The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a multinational survey on copyright…
Librarian Copyright Literacy: Self-Reported Copyright Knowledge Among Information Professionals in the United States
Librarians often act as default copyright experts at their institutions and thus must have an…
Copyright and E-learning: A guide for practitioners
Jane Secker and Chris Morrison have completely revised and updated this highly successful text to…
Copyright Literacy in Finnish Libraries, Archives and Museums
Copyright literacy in Finnish libraries, archives, and museums was studied by a web survey as…
Copyright Literacy in the UK: a survey of librarians and other cultural heritage sector professionals
Based on a survey of UK library and information professionals and those who work in…