Special Collections and Archives Guide

Researchers may make free and open use of the Alkek Library's digitized public domain materials. However, some materials in our online collections may be protected by U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use (Title 17, U.S.C. § 107) requires permission from the copyright owners.

The use or reproduction of some materials may also be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, privacy and publicity rights, or trademark law. Responsibility for determining rights status and permissibility of any use or reproduction rests exclusively with the researcher.

There is not one standard for citing all materials utilized from the Special Collections and Archives. Please feel free to ask questions about how to cite the materials - we'll be glad to assist you with gathering content for your citation. Be sure to refer to your style guide for specific information about how to organize the content into an appropriate citation.

Example of a citation format:

[Item, date]. Collection Title, Collection dates (Identification Number). Special Collections & Archives, Texas State University.

Example citation:

Reception, Undated. Aquarena Springs Records, 1929-2010 (80.300-Aquarena). Special Collections & Archives, Texas State University.

Please contact us with any questions: Archives & Records Request Form

To learn more about U.S. copyright law, please see http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/.

Photographic negatives, transferred by the University News Service, form the bulk of images related to Texas State University. This record group consists of approximately 700,000 individual images taken from approximated 1970 to 1999. The majority of these images were intended for publicity purposes, from general views of students on campus to specific academic and extracurricular events.

University Photographs and Negatives in the archives: TXST Digital Collections

University News Service Photographs are licensed under the following terms:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Any use of an image, whether print or digital, must include the following information: [filename], University News Service Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Texas State University.

The publisher of the San Marcos Daily Record selected a Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial license for the images contained in the negative collection held by the Special Collections and Archives. 

A simple summary of this rights statement means you are free to share and adapt any images, but you must observe the following conditions:

1. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
2. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

Any use of an image, whether print or digital, must include the following information: [filename], San Marcos Daily Record Negative Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Texas State University.

San Marcos Daily Record Negatives Collection

The oral histories held by the Special Collections and Archives are protected by copyright. No permission is required for research or educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission. Special Collections and Archives has obtained the consent of both the interviewer and the interviewee to make these oral histories available for research and educational use.

If you are a copyright owner with concerns about an oral history in our collections, please contact us: Archives & Records Form