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The following chart offers a limited guide to the types of intellectual content found on this site and whose permission may need to be sought in order to reuse or republish these items in another context.
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| Code | GNU General Public License, v. 3 or later | Not applicable. | Code for this site may be found at GitHub, and is made available to support open source programming efforts. Visit the GNU website for more information on the limits of this license." |
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Historical data
Public domain (use restrictions do not apply). |
Format: [name of specific database used]. [latest publication year of data, indicated on the Downloads page of the site]. SlaveVoyages. [website URL or permanent link created from data search] (accessed Month, Day, Year).
Example: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. 2019. SlaveVoyages. https://www.slavevoyages.org (accessed January 1, 2020).
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Data drawn from historical documents is public domain and therefore not restricted. Imputed data (indicated with an asterisk, *, in the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American databases, and all data in the Estimates page) is licensed through a Creative Commons license. Visit the Creative Commons website for more information on the limits of this license. |
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Imputed data
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. |
Format: [name of specific database used]. [latest publication year of data, indicated on the Downloads page of the site]. SlaveVoyages. [website URL or permanent link created from data search] (accessed Month, Day, Year).
Example: Estimates. 2019. SlaveVoyages. https://slavevoyages.org/assessment/estimates (accessed January 1, 2020).
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Digitized objects
For permission questions or requests, contact the institution that provided the digital copy and/or holds the original. |
Format: [title provided for digitized image in the Images section]. JPEG. SlaveVoyages. [URL for Images Gallery] (accessed Month, Day, Year).
Example: West and West-Central Africa, c. 1660. JPEG. SlaveVoyages. https://slavevoyages.org/resources/images/ (accessed January 1, 2020).
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Contact the SlaveVoyages website administrator with questions or requests about re-using images contained within the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American databases or the Estimates page (graphs, maps, timeline). The SlaveVoyages logo is only available for approved publicity for the SlaveVoyages site. |
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Introductory Maps
Contact Yale University Press. |
Format: [title of map]. JPEG. SlaveVoyages. [URL for Introductory Maps section of Voyages website] (accessed Month, Day, Year).
Example: Map 4: Wind and ocean currents of the Atlantic basins. JPEG. SlaveVoyages. https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/maps (accessed January 1, 2020).
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Essays
Contact individual author for permission to republish. |
Format: [author of essay]. [publication date of essay]. [title of essay]. SlaveVoyages. [URL to first page of essay in Essays section] (accessed Month, Day, Year).
Example 1: Behrendt, Stephen D. 2008. Seasonality in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. SlaveVoyages. https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/essays (accessed January 1, 2020).
Example 2: Eltis, David, and Paul F. Lachance. 2010. Estimates of the size and direction of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. SlaveVoyages. https://slavevoyages.org/documents/download/2010estimates-method.pdf (accessed January 1, 2020).
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As with any information or object reused or republished in another context, original author or copyright should be appropriately credited. |
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Format: [author of lesson plan]. [title of lesson plan]. SlaveVoyages. [URL to PDF version of lesson plan] (accessed Month, Day, Year).
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Other text
PDF documents, glossary, FAQs, site text, and other text on the site not attributed to an individual is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. |
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| Video | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License |
Format: Demos: [title of demonstration video]. QuickTime movie. SlaveVoyages. https://www.slavevoyages.org (accessed Month, Day, Year).
Example: Demos: SlaveVoyages site overview. QuickTime movie. SlaveVoyages. https://www.slavevoyages.org (accessed January 1, 2020).
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| [Link to Website] | Open Access | Not applicable. | SlaveVoyages is an open access website. No permission or license agreement is needed to create a link to this site. |
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