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 require anyone wishing to use our copyrighted materials to submit a request form detailing how the materials will be used.
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.
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/s (guidebooks, brochures, handouts, etc) based on or incorporating substantial portions of our document/s, please use the following language:
- 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 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
- If you are offering a workshop/s based on our copyrighted materials, 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.®
- If you wish, you may choose to name our workshop on which your workshop is based, for example: 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, a simple citation to the appropriate document will suffice.
- If you envision using our material in some other manner, please use the language above as a guideline and forward your verbiage to Eve Fine (efine@wisc.edu) who will provide 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 Prejudice Habit Through Bias LiteracyTM (Trademark applied for)
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.
List of Trademarks and Copyrighted Materials
Trademarks
- WISELI: Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute®
- Searching for Excellence and Diversity®
- Breaking the Prejudice Habit Through Bias LiteracyTM (Trademark applied for)
Copyrights
- Enhancing Department Climate: A Chair’s Role© (workshop, presentation)
- Breaking the Prejudice Habit Through Bias Literacy© (workshop, presentation)
- WISELI Website (http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu)
- 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 Committee Chairs, 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 Committee Chairs. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. (Copyright © 2005 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.)
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman. Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. (Copyright © 2005 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.)
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman. Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions, 2nd ed. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006. (Copyright © 2006 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.)
- Eve Fine and Jennifer Sheridan. Enhancing Department Climate: A Guide for Department Chairs. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008. (Copyright © 2008 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. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005, 2009. (Copyright © 2005, 2009 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.)
- 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).
- 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 the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System)
- Deveny Benting and Jennifer Sheridan. Advancing Your Career Through Awards and Recognition. WISELI, 2004. (Copyright © 2004 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.)