Humanities and Social Sciences Library > Collections & Reading Rooms > Manuscripts and Archives Division

Publication

Permission to publish or quote from any material from the collections must be obtained from the Division . In addition to a description of the document(s) being quoted, permission requests must include the name of the collection and, when applicable, the box and folder (identified by number or title) that contain the document(s).

As a courtesy, the Division asks that researchers making substantial use of its collections notify the Division of their publication plans even when not quoting directly.

It is the researcher’s responsibility to obtain permission to publish from appropriate copyright owners. An excellent resource for locating copyright holders for authors and artists is the WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders), maintained by the Harry Ransom Center. This resource also includes useful information on copyright and finding copyright holders.

The Library’s Photographic Services and Permissions office handles permission requests for still and moving images.