image permissions

Hello All,

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.

Getting permission to reproduce copyrighted material in your own work can be intimidating and frustrating, and most scholars don’t get much, if any, training in how to do it. You won’t be surprised to learn there is no one simple trick, but the following tips aim to demystify the process and make it easier to manage.

Dear Dr. Grimstead (and all),

SHERA maintains a list of image permission contacts, started by Margaret Samu some time ago and regularly updated by the H-SHERA editors.

Dear Margaret and other Shera colleagues,
We'd be glad to try to add image contacts to our extensive museum [and related] coverage in ArcheoBiblioBase, -- now available at http://abb.eastview.com/
if you and other Shera specialists would supply a list and help us keep the contacts up to date.
grimsted@fas.harvard.edu

Dear Nic,

Thank you for sharing this contact. When was the last time you used it to obtain images? Is it a recent contact? If so, then we should add it to our list of contacts for image reproductions and permissions.

Gratefully,
Margaret

Try: palaceizdat@gmx.net

Cheers!

Nic Iljine

Thanks, Agnes. (And hello!) That's what I feared. Appreciate your help!
All best wishes,
Katia

Hi Katia,
I have a response from Vera (kessenix@gmail.com) in February this year. Unfortunately, currently Russian museums do not respond to image request emails (personal experience). Except for the Kremlin Museums: they returned last week. 
Best wishes,
Agnes

Dear all,

I'm trying to secure permission for an image in the collection of the Russian Museum. I've written twice now to Vera Kessenich and gotten no response. Does anyone know if the contact for image permissions has changed? Or if there is someone else I could try? Any leads or advice are very welcome.

Thank you!

Katia

Dear SHERAns

We've added a new entry to our list of relevant contacts for obtaining photography and image permissions:

• Slavonic Library, National Library of Finland

You can find the full listing here and it is linked in the side-menu on H-SHERA.