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Conditions of Use Statement

This site is an educational, non-profit resource. Unless otherwise noted, all Pages and Resources mounted on "Dickinson Electronic Archives" are copyrighted by the author/editor and may be shared only in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Redistribution or republication in any medium requires express prior written consent from the author/editors and advance notification of the General Editors.

By their use of these texts and images, users agree to the following conditions:

  • These texts and images may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior written permission from the General Editors.
  • These texts and images may not be redistributed in any forms other than their current ones.
  • Users are not permitted to download these texts and images in order to mount them on their own servers. It is not in our interest or that of our users to have uncontrolled subsets of our holdings available elsewhere on the Internet. We make corrections and additions to our edited resources on a continual basis, and we want the most current text to be the only one generally available to all Internet users. Institutions can, of course, make a link to the copies at the Dickinson Electronic Archives, subject to our conditions of use.
  • When citing from the Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA1 & DEA2), users should follow the same pattern employed when quoting a print source, giving author or editor, title, publisher, location (in this case a URL), and date of publication. So, for instance, if our "About the Archives" page were accessed and someone wanted to quote from it, that citation should read:

Smith, Martha Nell, Ellen Louise Hart, Lara Vetter, and Marta Werner, General Editors. "About the Archives,"Dickinson Electronic Archives. Online. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia. Available: /about_the_site.html. date of accession [e.g., 1 January 2000].

Guidelines for Electronic Citation

MLA's Guide to Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web

MLA-Style Citations of Internet Sources by Janice R. Walker