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Permission to Publish

You must obtain permission from the Historical Collections Department to publish quotations and/or visual images from the collections and to use or cite information from the collections.

To request permission to publish, contact the Associate Director, Public Services at Historical Collections. Describe your publication plans and include all text and corresponding citations in which information from the collection(s) has been used. This is most effectively done by sending copies of the pages on which material is used, along with the corresponding footnote.

In granting permission to publish reproductions of items from its collections, Baker Library does not surrender its own right to publish the items nor its right to grant the same permission to others. Authorization by Baker Library is not a copyright agreement and does not remove the patron's responsibility to guard against the infringement of rights held by others.

Patrons must obtain reproductions prior to requesting permission to publish them. Patrons should consult the Historical Collections Department Photographic Services page for more information on the costs associated with obtaining reproductions and for the details on placing an order.

The Historical Collections Department charges a fee to use images from its collections. Publication fees cover nonexclusive, one-time, one-edition use of a single image unless otherwise indicated and are to be paid in advance of publication. This fee also covers ancillary rights, such as use in marketing materials for that edition.

Any changes in content constitute a separate edition. To use images, quotations, or citations in a separate edition requires additional permission as well as additional publication fees. Permission must be granted, and the publication fee paid, in advance of the publication of the separate edition.

The Historical Collections Department will provide an appropriate citation format at the time that the request to publish is approved.