Copyright and DMCA Policy

Last updated: July 29, 2026

1. Our Educational Mission

ResearchMethod.net was created to make research knowledge, academic guidance, templates, lecture materials, and educational resources freely accessible to students, teachers, lecturers, researchers, scholars, and educational institutions.

Our primary purpose is to support education, teaching, learning, academic writing, and research. Therefore, most original materials published on ResearchMethod.net may be used freely for legitimate educational, academic, teaching, and non-commercial research purposes, subject to the conditions explained in this Policy.

We encourage responsible use of our materials in:

  • Research papers
  • Theses and dissertations
  • Research articles
  • Academic assignments
  • Classroom teaching
  • Lectures and presentations
  • Workshops and seminars
  • Student projects
  • Research proposals
  • Educational handouts
  • Institutional learning-management systems
  • Non-commercial training and educational activities

2. Copyright Ownership

Unless otherwise stated, the original content published on ResearchMethod.net is owned by or licensed to ResearchMethod.net.

This may include:

  • Articles and research guides
  • Definitions and explanations
  • Research-methodology materials
  • Statistical guides
  • Tables, charts, and illustrations
  • Downloadable templates
  • Lecture slides and presentations
  • Worksheets and checklists
  • Calculators and educational tools
  • Website graphics and design elements
  • Other original educational resources

Copyright ownership remains with ResearchMethod.net or the identified copyright owner. Giving users permission to use our materials for education and research does not transfer copyright ownership.

Third-party materials remain the property of their respective copyright owners.

3. Free Academic and Research Use

Students, researchers, scholars, and academic authors may freely use information from ResearchMethod.net in:

  • Research papers
  • Theses
  • Dissertations
  • Journal articles
  • Conference papers
  • Literature reviews
  • Research proposals
  • Academic reports
  • Coursework and assignments
  • Student projects
  • Other scholarly publications

Users may quote, summarize, paraphrase, discuss, or refer to our content for legitimate academic and research purposes.

Where appropriate, users should cite ResearchMethod.net and provide a link to the specific page used. Citations should follow the style required by the relevant university, journal, supervisor, teacher, or academic institution.

Using ResearchMethod.net as a source does not mean that users may present our original wording, templates, graphics, or other materials as their own work. Proper attribution should always be provided when our content has contributed to an academic work.

Publication of a research paper, thesis, dissertation, or academic article through a university, journal, research repository, or academic database is permitted. This remains allowed even when the journal or publishing platform operates commercially, provided that the user is publishing their own academic work and is not selling or reselling ResearchMethod.net materials as a separate product.

4. Free Use by Teachers and Lecturers

Teachers, lecturers, instructors, professors, supervisors, trainers, and educational institutions may freely use ResearchMethod.net materials for teaching and educational purposes.

Permitted teaching uses include:

  • Explaining research concepts in a classroom
  • Presenting our materials during lectures
  • Adding relevant material to lesson plans
  • Sharing links with students
  • Printing educational handouts
  • Including selected content in course notes
  • Uploading materials to a restricted student learning-management system
  • Using templates for classroom activities
  • Using lecture slides during lessons, seminars, or workshops
  • Adapting slides to match a course or teaching style
  • Adding an institution’s name or logo to adapted teaching materials
  • Translating materials for classroom use
  • Distributing materials to students without charge

Teachers and educational institutions do not need to request individual permission for ordinary non-commercial classroom use.

Where reasonably possible, please identify ResearchMethod.net as the original source. A simple credit may be provided on the first or final slide, in the references section, in the course materials, or near the content used.

5. Use of Templates

Templates available on ResearchMethod.net are provided to help students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers complete academic and research-related work.

Users may freely:

  • Download templates
  • Edit and customize templates
  • Add personal, university, or institutional information
  • Use templates for research papers, proposals, theses, dissertations, reports, and assignments
  • Share unmodified or adapted templates with students or colleagues
  • Print templates for educational use
  • Use templates in classroom exercises or workshops
  • Upload templates to a restricted course or institutional learning system
  • Translate templates for educational use

Users may remove example text, placeholder content, and instructional notes when completing a template.

No payment is required to use ResearchMethod.net templates for legitimate educational, teaching, or research purposes.

However, users may not sell, resell, license, commercially redistribute, or place ResearchMethod.net templates inside a paid template package without prior written permission.

6. Use of Lecture Slides and Presentations

Lecture slides and presentations made available by ResearchMethod.net are free for students, teachers, lecturers, researchers, and educational institutions to use for non-commercial education.

Users may:

  • Present the slides in classrooms
  • Use them in online or in-person lectures
  • Edit the slides
  • Add or remove slides
  • Add personal teaching notes
  • Translate the slides
  • Add university, department, or instructor information
  • Combine selected slides with original teaching materials
  • Share the slides with enrolled students
  • Use them in academic workshops and research seminars
  • Print them as student handouts

Reasonable credit to ResearchMethod.net should be maintained or added where practical.

Lecture slides may not be sold, resold, uploaded to paid download platforms, included in paid resource bundles, or commercially redistributed without written permission.

7. Non-Commercial Sharing

Users may share ResearchMethod.net resources with classmates, students, colleagues, researchers, supervisors, and academic communities without charge.

Permitted sharing may include:

  • Sending a resource directly to a student or colleague
  • Sharing a link through email or social media
  • Uploading a resource to a private classroom system
  • Distributing printed copies during a class or workshop
  • Sharing adapted teaching materials within an educational institution
  • Including materials in a free academic workshop
  • Sharing resources through a non-commercial educational group

Any shared material must remain free to the recipient. Users may not charge a separate fee for access to ResearchMethod.net materials.

8. Commercial Use and Reselling Are Prohibited

ResearchMethod.net materials are provided freely to support education and research. They may not be exploited for unauthorized commercial gain.

Without prior written permission, users may not:

  • Sell or resell our articles, templates, slides, or other resources
  • Upload our materials to paid download websites
  • Include our materials in paid template bundles
  • Sell printed or digital copies of our resources
  • Place our resources behind a paywall
  • Sell access to a database containing our materials
  • Rebrand our materials and sell them under another name
  • Use our content as the main product in a paid course
  • Commercially license or sublicense our materials
  • Mass-produce our content for commercial distribution
  • Use our resources to create paid products that substantially reproduce the original materials
  • Claim copyright ownership over ResearchMethod.net content
  • Remove attribution in order to falsely present our materials as original work

Teachers and trainers may refer to ResearchMethod.net while providing paid professional teaching or academic supervision. However, they may not sell ResearchMethod.net templates, lecture slides, articles, or downloadable resources as their own commercial products.

Organizations interested in commercial licensing, publishing partnerships, institutional redistribution, or incorporation into paid products must obtain written permission from ResearchMethod.net.

9. Attribution Guidelines

Reasonable attribution helps readers and students locate the original resource and supports our mission of providing free educational materials.

Attribution may include:

Source: ResearchMethod.net

For online use, users should include a link to the specific ResearchMethod.net page whenever reasonably possible.

For research papers, theses, dissertations, and journal articles, users should cite the relevant page according to the citation style required by their institution or publisher.

For classroom slides or handouts, a simple source acknowledgment is sufficient, such as:

Adapted from ResearchMethod.net

or:

Educational resource provided by ResearchMethod.net

Failure to use a specific citation format will not automatically be treated as copyright infringement. However, users must not knowingly claim that ResearchMethod.net materials are their own original work.

10. Translations and Adaptations

Users may translate and adapt our materials for legitimate non-commercial academic, educational, and research purposes.

Adaptations may include:

  • Translating articles or teaching materials
  • Simplifying explanations for students
  • Modifying lecture slides
  • Customizing templates
  • Creating classroom activities
  • Combining selected material with original educational content
  • Changing examples to suit a particular course or country
  • Adjusting formatting for accessibility or institutional requirements

Adapted materials should acknowledge ResearchMethod.net as the original source where reasonably possible.

Users must not suggest that ResearchMethod.net officially approved, reviewed, or endorsed a translation or adaptation unless written approval has been provided.

Commercial sale or resale of translated or adapted ResearchMethod.net materials is not permitted without written authorization.

11. Republishing on Websites

Users may quote, summarize, reference, or discuss ResearchMethod.net articles on educational websites, blogs, institutional pages, and academic platforms, provided that:

  • The use is non-commercial.
  • ResearchMethod.net is identified as the source.
  • A link to the original page is included where technically possible.
  • The content is not falsely presented as the user’s original work.
  • The material is not sold or placed behind a paywall.

We encourage users to link to the original article rather than publishing unnecessary duplicate copies. Linking helps readers access updated information and ensures that corrections or improvements remain available.

Commercial websites, publishing companies, content agencies, paid membership platforms, and businesses must request permission before substantially republishing our content.

12. Third-Party Materials

Some ResearchMethod.net pages may contain quotations, images, tables, references, datasets, names, trademarks, or other content belonging to third parties.

Permission granted under this Policy applies only to materials owned by ResearchMethod.net. It does not grant permission to use third-party materials beyond what is permitted by the relevant copyright owner or applicable law.

Users are responsible for checking any copyright notices, licenses, source information, or restrictions connected to third-party content.

13. Fair Use and Legal Exceptions

Nothing in this Policy is intended to limit lawful fair use, fair dealing, quotation rights, educational exceptions, research exceptions, or other rights available under applicable copyright law.

This Policy provides additional permission for educational and non-commercial use of ResearchMethod.net-owned content. Users do not need to rely solely on fair use when their activities are expressly permitted by this Policy.

14. Reporting Copyright Infringement

ResearchMethod.net respects the intellectual property rights of others.

If you believe that content available on ResearchMethod.net infringes a copyright that you own or are authorized to enforce, please submit a written copyright-infringement notice containing:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed.
  3. Identification of the allegedly infringing material and enough information for us to locate it, including the exact URL whenever possible.
  4. Your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Incomplete notices may be delayed while we request additional information.

15. DMCA Contact Information

Copyright infringement notices should be sent to:

Designated Copyright Agent
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Please use the email subject:

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16. Response to Copyright Complaints

After receiving a complete copyright complaint, ResearchMethod.net may:

  • Review the complaint
  • Request additional information
  • Remove or restrict access to the identified material
  • Contact the author, contributor, or affected user
  • Provide relevant details of the complaint to the affected party
  • Restore material where appropriate
  • Restrict contributors who repeatedly submit infringing material
  • Reject fraudulent, misleading, incomplete, or abusive complaints

Removing or restricting material does not necessarily mean that ResearchMethod.net accepts that copyright infringement occurred.

17. Counter-Notification

A contributor or user who believes that material was removed because of a mistake or misidentification may submit a written counter-notification containing:

  1. A physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material that was removed or restricted.
  3. The location where the material appeared before it was removed.
  4. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the person has a good-faith belief that the material was removed because of mistake or misidentification.
  5. The person’s full name, address, telephone number, and email address.
  6. The legally required statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the appropriate United States Federal District Court.
  7. A statement agreeing to accept service of process from the person who submitted the original complaint or that person’s authorized representative.

Counter-notifications should be sent to the Copyright Agent listed above with the subject:

DMCA Counter-Notification

18. Repeat Infringement

ResearchMethod.net may remove content or restrict contributors who repeatedly or seriously infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

We may consider the number, validity, seriousness, and circumstances of copyright complaints before taking action.

19. False or Abusive Claims

Copyright notices and counter-notifications are legal communications. Users should not submit false, misleading, fraudulent, or bad-faith claims.

Copyright procedures should not be used merely because someone:

  • Disagrees with an article
  • Dislikes an opinion or conclusion
  • Believes information is inaccurate
  • Objects to criticism
  • Wants content removed for reputational reasons
  • Has a trademark, privacy, contractual, or non-copyright complaint

Non-copyright concerns should be submitted through our general contact page.

20. No Warranty or Legal Advice

This Policy is provided for general informational and website-administration purposes. It does not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship.

ResearchMethod.net does not guarantee that every permitted use described in this Policy will satisfy the academic-integrity, ethics, publication, copyright, or institutional requirements applicable to every user.

Students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers remain responsible for following the requirements of their university, journal, publisher, employer, or educational institution.

21. Policy Changes

ResearchMethod.net may update this Copyright and DMCA Policy when necessary to reflect changes in our website, educational mission, publishing practices, or legal obligations.

The revised Policy will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.

22. Contact Us

For copyright permissions, commercial licensing, publishing partnerships, or questions about permitted use, contact:

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Contact page: https://researchmethod.net/contact-us/

Students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers do not need to contact us before using our original materials for the educational and non-commercial purposes expressly permitted under this Policy.