Permissions and Citations

Permissions 

In most circumstances, the Rose Library does not hold copyright to the materials in its holdings and therefore cannot grant or deny permission to use them. The Rose Library provides copies of materials in our collections for private study, scholarship, or research. The Rose Library patrons are solely responsible for determining the proper copyright holder and securing permission to publish, quote, broadcast, exhibit or perform that work.

The representatives of many literary creators can be found online in the WATCH file: WATCH (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright).

The Rose Library will provide all available information about the copyright holder of materials found in our collections, but cannot guarantee the accuracy of that information. Please contact Gabrielle M. Dudley, Assistant Director of Public Services, with your questions and concerns.

Copyright law is very complicated and nuanced. For some basics on fair use and copyright terms, we recommend Columbia University's Fair Use Checklist, and Cornell University's Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States. Emory University users can also contact the Libraries Scholarly Communications Office for assistance.

Citations 

Please use the following format when citing materials from the Rose Library’s manuscript collections:

[Identification of item, title of collection], Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

You may also download and distribute a handout for citing Rose Library materials.

For example:

Letter from John Cennick to Howell Harris, July 28, 1742, John Wesley papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

African-American Males in California, Opportunity or Chaos: A Generation in Peril, preliminary report on the status of African-American males in California, 1992, LouiseThompson Patterson papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

The Color Purple, manuscript, 1982, Alice Walker Papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

Life is Real, poster for 1934 film, African American Cinema Collection, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

Accession Book, 1959-1989, Department of Biology records, Emory University Archives,  Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.