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In Copyright Content

BHL has obtained permission from the rights holders to make in-copyright content available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license. Works in the BHL collection that are protected by United States copyright law are designated by the following rights statement:

In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the rights holder.

To locate this rights statement, available in the <Copyright status> field, click on the "+" next to the volume/book link or select "Expand All Scan Details".
[provide visual on how to access <copyright status> field]

Commercial use of this content is NOT permitted, 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.

If you would like to contribute content to the BHL collection please take a look at our standard permissions agreement forms and contact Bianca Crowley crowleyb@si.edu:

• [Book/monograph form]
• [Journal/serial form]

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:

No known copyright restrictions as determined by scanning institution.

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

[When the Connecting Content Project is ready we should include a brief description & list of rights holders for this specific set (need anchor link for this)]

In-copyright Titles

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Archive

Rethinking BHL Permissions page on the BHL public wiki

• It might be a good idea to rework this page to include more information about how to contribute to the BHL project and the various workflows we have for accepting content:
  • BHL standard scanning via IA
  • contributions of simple files to CB
  • the possibility of adding complex-objects (each page is a file or "object") via "magic spreadsheets" (MOBOT) or Macaw (SIL) [PS there is also a MOBOT workflow where the technicians load scans of "orange bag" content contributed from NYBG and MCZ; could apply to other BHL libs on an as needed basis but this is a worst case scenario]
  • Trish and Bianca to address this at some point

• Would be good to include some statement about the fact that BHL member institutions have granted permission for some of their own home publications for inclusion into BHL; no actual list of publications is necessary

Current text for permissions page:

Are you an author or publisher and would like more information about including your copyright protected works in the Biodiversity Heritage Library? Please take a moment to complete our questionnaire BHL Permissions Questionnaire.pdf and contact our collections coordinator, Bianca Lipscomb (lipscombb@si.edu). You may also wish to review our standard permission form BHL Permissions Form2.pdf.

Book/Monograph Titles [form]
Journal/Serial Titles [form]

Permissions Agreements Secured for the Following Publications [chart]:
Organization; Publication_Name; Run_Start; Run_Stop; Moving Wall; Wall Years