Use Guidelines

digitalculturebooks content is available to view for free online and for purchase in print and ebook format. digitalculturebooks titles are typically produced under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons (CC) License that allows for specific, noncommercial use; all our titles under CC License have a notice posted on the title information page to notify users. We have encouraged our authors to make their work available via this Creative Commons license both to simplify our permissions granting processes and to encourage our works to be as widely distributed as possible. This second goal is an important philosophical choice for the digitalculturebooks imprint: to make our content freely accessible and fluidly available for educational and research purposes. As long as you attribute your use properly and follow the terms of the Creative Commons license, you need not contact us for permission to use these works, although we would be delighted to hear how you’ve used our work, or if you have suggestions for other scholarly information to include on the site.

We are very willing to work with you on commercial uses of content in digitalculturebooks should that be the way you chose to distribute the work more widely. If you wish to reproduce digitalculturebooks content in a way that goes beyond what is permitted in the Creative Commons license, say for commercial reprints or coursepacks, please see the information about permissions and reprints listed on the University of Michigan Press website or contact um.press.perms@umich.edu with your questions.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization that created a set of simple, easy-to-understand copyright licenses. These licenses carve out a spectrum of options between the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright and the rights-free public domain. Before Creative Commons, there was no easy way for creators to share their rights, even if they wanted to. The "Some Rights Reserved" model helps copyright holders to share their work easily without giving up all their rights, and it allows everyone to find work that is free to use without permission.

By marking copyrighted content as available for reuse, authors can offer the academic community and the public a valuable contribution to a growing set of scholarly resources that are free from traditional permissions obligations.

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