Permissions

toc BHL provides access to hundreds of in-copyright titles throughout our collection. Copyright holders have granted BHL consortium partners permission to include their content by way of an express agreement. In some cases, individual partner institutions within the BHL Consortium have acquired permission to digitize directly with copyright holders independent of BHL. If you are a copyright holder that would like to contribute content to the BHL collection, please see below.
 * In Copyright Content **

The majority of in-copyright items are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. In rare cases, you may also notice in copyright content made available under different licensing terms. Works in the BHL collection that are protected by copyright are designated by the following rights statement: code In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the rights holder. code

To locate this rights statement, available in the  field, click on the "+" next to the volume/book link. **Commercial use of CC BY-NC-SA content is strictly prohibited**, however you are free to access, and download this content just as you would other, public domain works in the BHL collection. Should you wish to reuse any in-copyright content in the BHL collection for commercial purposes, you must contact rights holder directly. For a list of rights holders, please see the table below.  =Contributing Content= If you would like to contribute content to the BHL collection please review a SAMPLE of our standard permissions agreement form. Contact Bianca Crowley crowleyb@si.edu for follow up:

For more information about the copyright status of content in the BHL collection, please see our Licensing and Copyright page.

=Content provided under Due Diligence= In some cases, BHL has provided access to works under the following designation: code No known copyright restrictions as determined by scanning institution. code Works may fall under the "no known copyright restrictions as determined by scanning institution" designation, for the following reasons:
 * the copyright has expired
 * the copyright may have existed at one point but was not renewed
 * there is no marking or indication of copyright on the material
 * a sufficient and diligent search has been performed to determine that the copyright holder(s) cannot be located or identified

If a valid copyright claim is presented for these items, BHL will remove the content. For more information about content with "no known copyright restrictions" in the BHL, please contact Bianca Crowley crowleyb@si.edu

=Archival Materials= Through projects like Connecting Content and the Smithsonian Field Books Project, archival materials are being scanned to the BHL. For the majority of these unpublished materials, copyright restrictions apply. Each item has been reviewed on a case-by-case basis and the appropriate copyright status is indicated for each. These materials may be licensed under the Creative Commons NC-BY-SA license and may not be used for commercial purposes. Check the individual volume's metadata for more details.

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