Trademarks and Copyrights
In order to foster and advance women and minorities in academia, WISELI: Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute® is firmly committed to broadly disseminating our materials and workshops to other academic institutions. Simultaneously, we are committed to protecting the reputation of our materials and to ensuring their appropriate use.
Consequently, we expect anyone who relies on our materials to create their own website, programs, resources, surveys, and publications to cite our relevant webpage/s, resources, and publications in their work. If the intended used of our copyrighted materials is extensive, we require submission of a request form detailing how the materials will be used to wiseli@engr.wisc.edu.
If your request is approved and you agree to the terms and conditions listed below, WISELI will grant you non-transferable, non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to use copyrighted material. (For academic institutions requesting use for educational purposes, this permission will usually be granted royalty-free.)
WISELI reserves the right to terminate or modify your permission for use and to take action against any use that does not conform to these terms and conditions, infringes on our intellectual property or other rights, or violates applicable law.
Please see below for:
Terms and Conditions for Copyright
- If you plan to create your own document (guidebook, brochure, handout, presentations, etc.) that incorporates substantial portions of our document/s, we will consider providing permission based on the extent to which our material is incorporated. In such cases, we will request the following:
- Your document’s design or format should clearly indicate what material is copied or paraphrased from WISELI’s documents and distinguish that content from your original content.
- Documents that contain substantial content from WISELI’s materials should not be posted on public websites or social media.
- Your document should include language acknowledging WISELI’s content. A suggested attribution is provided below:
- This handbook/guidebook/booklet/handout/document (your choice) is reproduced and adapted with permission from WISELI: Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute® at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. It is based on the following publication/s: (Please see list of publications below and use the following format:
- Author/s. Title. Copyright © Date by WISELI and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.)
- If the material you wish to incorporate is deemed too extensive to receive permission to incorporate into the document you wish to produce (e.g., it paraphrases or includes verbatim most of an entire brochure, or most of an entire chapter), we may provide permission for you to print copies of a brochure or portions of a guidebook and disseminate them to members of your institution. In such cases, we will request the following:
- Any electronic versions of WISELI’s content should not be posted on public websites or social media.
- Appropriate notification that you have received permission to copy the document. Suggested language for this notification is provided below:
- Permission to reproduce this brochure has been provided by WISELI to [Name of Institution]. Please do not copy, distribute further, or post on public websites or social media.
- Or,
- Permission to reproduce [page numbers/chapter title] of the guidebook [Guidebook Title] has been provided by WISELI to [Name of Institution]. Please do not copy, distribute further, or post on public websites or social media.
- If you are offering a workshop/s based on our copyrighted materials, please do not use “Searching for Excellence and Diversity” and “Breaking the Bias Habit”* as titles for your workshop as these titles are trademarked (please see note on use of trademarks, below). Please include the following text in a footnote on both the agenda and announcement:
- This workshop is based on and adapted from a workshop developed by WISELI: Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute.®
- Or,
- This workshop is based on and adapted from "Searching for Excellence and Diversity,"® a workshop developed by WISELI: Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute.®
- If the material you plan to incorporate is not nearly as extensive as described above, and you are simply quoting or paraphrasing a sentence or two, a simple citation to the appropriate document will suffice.
- If you envision using our material in some other manner, please use the request form to explain your intended use, rely on the examples suggested above as a guideline to develop appropriate attribution text, and submit the request to WISELI at wiseli@engr.wisc.edu. We will consider providing permission or suggest changes.
- If you receive requests from other institutions to use/reproduce/adapt material you based on WISELI’s publications, please forward them to WISELI at wiseli@engr.wisc.edu.
Important Note on Use of Trademarks
WISELI holds the following trademarks:
- Searching for Excellence and Diversity®
- WISELI: Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute®
- Breaking the Bias Habit®
Because we hold these trademarks, we ask that you do not use them as titles for any workshops or documents you develop.* Please use these trademarks only when crediting WISELI for our contributions as indicated in the examples above. When using the trademarks, please adhere to the following guidelines:
- Distinguish the trademark from the surrounding text in some manner by capitalizing or italicizing the entire mark, placing the mark in quotes, or using a different type style or font.
- Follow the trademark with the symbol ® to identify the term as a registered trademark.
*If you purchased the Breaking the Bias Habit® Toolkit, your purchase includes the right to use the trademarked title, but the guidelines provided above still apply.
List of Copyrighted Materials
- Assessing and Enhancing Department Climate: A Workshop Series for Department Chairs© (workshop, presentation)
- Enhancing Department Climate: A Chair’s Role© (workshop, presentation)
- WISELI Website (http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu)
- Breaking the Bias Habit®: A Workshop to Promote Gender Equity© (workshop, presentation)
- Breaking the Bias Habit®: A Workshop to Promote a Diverse, Welcoming, and Inclusive Campus© (workshop, presentation)
- All powerpoint presentations and handouts
- All brochures and guidebooks (see partial list below)
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman. Searching for Excellence and Diversity: A Guide for Search Committees, National Edition. WISELI, 2012. (Copyright © 2012 by WISELI and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.)
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman. Searching for Excellence and Diversity: A Guide for Search Committees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Second Edition. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012. (Copyright © 2012 by WISELI and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.) [Previous edition Copyright © 2005.]
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman. Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions, 3rd edition. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012. (Copyright © 2012 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.) [Previous editions: Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006.]
- Eve Fine and Jennifer Sheridan. Enhancing Department Climate: A Guide for Department Chairs. University of Wisconsin Madison, 2015. (Copyright © 2015 by WISELI and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.) [Previous editions: Copyright © 2008, 2010.]
- Jennifer Sheridan, Eve Fine, and Jo Handelsman. Fostering Success for Women in Science and Engineering: Advice for Departmental Faculty. University of Wisconsin, 2010. (Copyright © 2010 by WISELI and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) [Previous editions: Copyright © 2005, 2009.]
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman. Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Academic Settings. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010. (Copyright © 2010 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System).
- Jo Handelsman, Jennifer Sheridan, Eve Fine, and Molly Carnes. Advancing Women in Science and Engineering: Advice to the Top, 2009. University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Copyright © 2009 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.) [Previous edition: Copyright © 2005.]