• The Western History Collections provides reproductions only for research use by the person requesting them. Reproductions provided are not to be used by other researchers or placed in any other library, museum, or repository, with the exception of tribal repositories when the materials originate from that community.
• The Western History Collections reserves the right to limit or deny copy requests of rare or fragile materials.
• The number of copies that can be made from any manuscript or university archives collection is limited to 300 pages.
• All orders must be prepaid (after having received an invoice), and all sales are final.
• Credit cards are not accepted.
• Requests for copies of manuscripts, photographs, books, maps, posters, and sound recordings may not be submitted through interlibrary loan.
• The Western History Collections does not claim copyright to materials in the collections. The researcher is responsible for determining copyright for any materials used.
• Permission to publish must be secured from the rights holders. Responsibility for determining the rights holders and adhering to copyright law rests with the researcher.
• The researcher is responsible for crediting the Western History Collections for any materials used.

View the copy fees for books, manuscripts, and oversized materials

• All copying of books, periodicals, pamphlets, sound recordings, photographs, manuscripts, and maps on WHC equipment will be performed by WHC personnel.
• Researchers may photograph books, manuscripts, and photographs using their own handheld devices. Camera flashes are prohibited, and electronic equipment must not directly contact collection materials. Flatbed scanners are not allowed. Researchers are solely responsible for recording their own citations for all materials used, copied, and photographed.
• For on-site requests of over 20 pages, the rate of 25 cents per page is charged for photocopies/scan orders from books, periodicals and manuscripts.
• Digital copies from books, manuscripts, oversized materials, and sound recordings may be purchased according to the current fee schedule.
• Requests for on-site photocopies/scan orders of 20 or fewer pages should be submitted to WHC staff no later than 30 minutes prior to the end of the appointment for same-day copying. Requests submitted after this time will be copied the next working day.
• Photocopies/scan orders larger than 20 pages may be purchased according to the current fee schedule and will be processed in the order that they are received.

The Western History collections staff makes every effort to assist researchers, but extensive research projects cannot be undertaken. Requests that take more than two hours for staff to research will be referred to a researcher-for-hire.

• Only two chapters per book or two articles per journal issue may be copied, or 20 percent of a book or journal volume, not to exceed 50 pages (whichever comes first).
• Only 20 percent of a musical score may be copied, as long as that portion copied does not comprise a performable unit of work.
• Only 20 percent of an unpublished manuscript may be copied.
• No portion of a work intended by the publisher to be consumed by the original user may be copied (e.g. workbooks, etc.).

No laws restrict copying of public domain materials. However, the Western History Collections reserves the right to limit or deny copying in order to protect materials which might be physically harmed as a result of such copying.

The copyright law of the United States (title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.