Re-use of material within our archives
Visitors to our Reading Room can take images of items if it is for non-commercial research purposes. When copying, please observe fair dealing and only copy as much material as is necessary.
If planning to use archival material for publication, you will need to assess whether your use is covered by a copyright exception or whether written permission or a licence for orphan works is required. There are no restrictions on work that is out of copyright (in the Public Domain), but please note that unpublished works remain in copyright until 2039.
LSE Library is not the copyright holder for the majority of our collections. Where we have contact details for copyright holders we are willing to pass permission requests on for you. In all cases it is users' responsibility to ensure that their reuse of works does not infringe others’ copyright.
Further guidance is outlined in our guide to copying archival material.
Digital Library content
You are welcome to re-use content from our Digital Library so long as you use it in an ethical and legally responsible manner.
Some of our content is out of copyright, or has no known copyright restrictions, and can be re-used without further permission. However much of our content is still copyright-protected and you may need to seek permission from the rightsholder for your intended use.
Read our terms and conditions for re-using content from LSE Digital Library.
If you are a rights holder and believe that we have made material available which infringes your copyright, please contact us. Details of how to do this can be found in our take down policy.