Citation & Copyright Policy

Embedded Primary Source Materials

The SNCC Digital Gateway links to online collections and educational resources owned and maintained by institutions across the country. These materials have been made available for use in research, teaching and private study. To request permissions to publish, display, broadcast, perform, duplicate, or otherwise use materials outside the context of personal study or other uses covered by the Fair Use clause in U.S. Copyright Law, please contact the owning institution. Material embedded in the SNCC Digital Gateway site links to the digital item hosted by the owning institution and identifies the owning institution by name in the caption. When citing these materials, please follow the citation guidelines of the owning institution.

Attributed Works Created for the SNCC Digital Gateway

If an article or work on the site includes the name of the author, that author owns the copyright to the article or work. (For example, all of the content in the Perspectives series is attributed.) These authors have agreed to make their content available using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. If you wish to use this content in a commercial work, please contact the SNCC Digital Gateway Project at snccdigital@gmail.com. When citing these works, please use the following citation format. “Page Title,” SNCC Digital Gateway, SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, website address.

Unattributed Works Created for the SNCC Digital Gateway

If an article or work on the site does not include the name of the author, the copyright to that article or work is held by the SNCC Legacy Project. (For example: profiles, event pages, inside SNCC pages, map content, descriptions, etc.). The SNCC Legacy Project has agreed to make this content available using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. If you wish to use this content in a commercial work, please contact the SNCC Digital Gateway Project at snccdigital@gmail.com. When citing these works, please use the following citation format: “Page Title,” SNCC Digital Gateway, SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, website address.