Fair Use, Copyright, and the Public Domain

 General Guidelines

• If you use materials from our collections, please cite us as:
  Special Research Collections, UCSB Library, University of California Santa Barbara
• The Regents of the University of California retain ownership and reproduction rights, where applicable, for all materials, both hard-copy and digital.  Payment of fees for reproductions does not include rights for publishing, or resale. 
• We may occasionally need to restrict reproduction for materials to which we do not have copy- or reproduction-rights.  
• Most US federal government publications are in the Public Domain and may be used, copied, and re-distributed without restriction.

Re-publishing

• Copyrighted materials may need rights clearance from parties other than UCSB --it is your responsibility to obtain proper permissions for re-publication of materials.  We are happy to assist in this process.

UCSB-created Data

• Whenever possible, we distribute data that we create under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.