While many of these items are made publicly-accessible, they are not all public domain -- the vast majority of the images, and a number of the texts, including all of those from the University of Virginia Special Collections Department, are copyrighted to the University of Virginia Library. We have put thousands of hours of work -- and thousands of dollars -- into scanning texts and images, tagging and proofreading them, and we hope the results are useful to a broad audience.

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

• These texts and images may not be used for any commercial purpose without permission from the Electronic Text Center.
  
  
• These texts and images may not be re-distributed in any forms other than their current ones.
  
  
• Users are not permitted to download our texts and images in order to mount them on their own servers for public use or for use by a set of subscribers. Institutions can, of course, make a link to the copies at UVa, subject to our conditions of use.
  
  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, add tags, add images, etc. on a continual basis, and we want the most current text to be the only one generally available to all Internet users.
  
  
• these texts can be used as the basis for additional TEI tagging or for some other project, but we ask that you let us know before you start, so that we can coordinate work on that text and make sure that we are not working on it simultaneously. We would like a copy of the improved text for our collections.

Our thanks are due to the Oxford Text Archive, to Judy Boss, to Charles Keller, and to a number of other individuals who have contributed texts to these collections. Credits are provided at the head of each text. New works will be added on a continuing basis, and we are actively working our way through the public texts on the Internet whose provenance can be determined.

Because of contractual obligations with the vendors who supply the texts and the search software, access to parts of the on-line text service is restricted to the parties covered by the various license agreements (usually University of Virginia users only). We do not own collections such as the Oxford English Dictionary and the English Poetry Database -- we merely license their use for our University of Virginia users.