The Special Collections & Rare Books Department provides some duplication services for items from our collections, but reserves the right to restrict reproduction of materials due to condition, size, copyright, staff availability or donor requirements. Duplication options currently available are photocopy or digitization of images, microforms, and documents. Reproduction requests should not exceed 25 pages/images per order, or at the discretion of the librarian, and are limited to items in the departments' collections.
To request reproductions from books, printed, or archival materials, please fill out a Duplication Request Form (book/printed material, archival material)
Digitized Reproduction Policy and Procedure
Permission to Publish or Display
This price list includes duplication services from bound books, manuscripts, and microform originals.
Please note : Payment must be received before any materials can be sent.
*Citation fee waived for walk-ins
Digital reproduction services are available at the Special Collections & Rare Books Department and are done by Special Collections & Rare Books staff. Digital scans from Print Materials must always be made by staff members and will incur the charges as stated below. However, microfilm, microfiche, and micro-opaque digital scanners are available for patrons' use at no charge while visiting the Special Collections Department during regular office hours. Patrons must make their own microfilm and microfiche copies in Ellis Library. Accommodations will be made for patrons with disabilities.
Images and text from books, manuscripts, and microforms can be scanned and saved in a variety of file formats and densities. Any manipulation of digitized images by patrons beyond cropping and minor adjustments to balance and contrast is strictly forbidden.
To request reproductions from books, printed, or archival materials, please fill out a Duplication Request Form (book/printed material, archival material)
Initial Cost for a Digital Scan
*Citation fee waived for walk-ins
After scanning, images can be provided to the researcher in a variety of file formats and densities, which may add additional costs:
Media |
Cost |
free |
|
Download |
free |
CD-R |
$1.00/per disc |
Information needed from the patron for this level of service:
1. File format
2. Resolution (based on printing screen)
3. Color or black-and-white image
4. Product desired (from table above)
Please note:
1. All duplication services must be fully paid at the time that the order is placed.
2. The quality of any digital duplication is limited by the quality of the original image.
3. Special Collections & Rare Books staff does not perform complex image manipulations.
4. Special Collections & Rare Books staff does not supply bibliographical references for the duplicated images.
The Special Collections & Rare Books Department encourages use of reproductions of its material in publications, broadcasts, public displays and on Web pages. However, permission must be obtained by means of the Special Collections & Rare Books' Request for Permission to Publish, Exhibit or Broadcast form.
Commercial and non-university publication, broadcast or display of Special Collections & Rare Books material requires a $60.00 per image use fee. The use fee entitles the patron to display, broadcast, or publish the image in a single exhibit, broadcast, or publication title. The user fee does not entitle the purchaser to repeated or perpetual use of the image or materials.
While no user fee is charged to University of Missouri offices, faculty, staff, or students for use of Special Collections & Rare Books images, completion of a Request for Permission to Publish, Exhibit or Broadcast form is required.
All digital reproductions will include the credit line as a part of the image file. The credit line must include the item identification as well as the phrase "Courtesy of the Special Collections & Rare Books Department, University of Missouri-Columbia."
For additional credit line information, see the Request for Permission to Publish, Exhibit or Broadcast form.
Certain phrases, names, marks, and logos (e.g., The University of Missouri, the 'Truman the Tiger' mascot) associated with the University of Missouri-Columbia have been registered or otherwise termed as trademarks. Please see the MU Licensing & Trademarks web page for contact information and additional information regarding possible licensing fees attached to the use of these trademarks.
The copyright law of the United States governs the making of photocopies and other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, copies may be provided for individual researchers' private study. The copies are provided for the individual's personal use and may not be further reproduced, published, broadcast, displayed, offered for sale, transferred to another individual or deposited in another institution without written permission from University of Missouri Special Collections & Rare Books Department and the copyright holder.
See Copyright Policies for more information on Special Collections' copyright policy and fair use information.
Patrons are responsible for observing all U.S. Copyright regulations. For more information on U.S. Copyright, visit the following web site:
http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sup_01_17.html.
Specific copying policies are employed for the Comic Art Collection and the Sanborn Map Collection.
United Media holds copyright on most years of Alley Oop Sunday and daily comic strips. In order to avoid breaking copyright restrictions or infringing on fair use, Special Collections is not currently providing photocopies of comic strips or copyrighted comic materials. See U.S. Copyright Office Circular 44: Cartoons and Comic Strips for more information. Please contact the United Media Reprints Division at reprints@unitedmedia.com to obtain copies of Alley Oop comic strips.
Special Collections will provide photocopies of comic materials in the public domain at the regular rates. The fee applies to each individual request. Daily Comic Strips and Sunday Comic Strips are considered different collections and are counted as separate requests.
For preservation reasons, Special Collections will not make photocopies of Sanborn Maps. Please visit the University of Missouri Digital Library for digitized Sanborn maps published before 1923. For later years, contact Environmental Data Resources, Inc. if you wish to order complete copies of Sanborn maps.