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Downloading portions of this website for redistribution in any form without authorization from the Canadian Rockhound is not permitted. However, users are welcome to print articles for non-commercial home and/or educational use by following the reprint guidelines below. Please contact the Canadian Rockhound for other arrangements.

Authors who contribute articles to the Canadian Rockhound retain copyright and ownership of their articles (which includes the text, photographs and diagrams used in their article). Authors do not retain copyright and ownership of the online web pages provided by the Canadian Rockhound.

Occasionally the Canadian Rockhound will use photographs or illustrations in articles that were provided by sources other than the author. These sources retain copyright and ownership of their content.

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How to Reprint an Article

Unless indicated otherwise, an article may not be copied or distributed without the author's permission. Obtaining permission to reprint an article is usually not a problem. If you wish to reprint an article from the Canadian Rockhound website, you must do two things: (1) obtain permission from the author (and any other sources), and (2) contact the Canadian Rockhound editor.

Copyright statements and reprint instructions appear at the end of every article. Also note that some articles may have certain conditions imposed on them that may restrict their reprinting. So be sure to read all reprint instructions carefully. Whenever possible an e-mail address has been provided at the end of every article. If the author's e-mail address is not available, or if you are unable to contact the author (i.e., the e-mail address doesn't work), you should contact the Canadian Rockhound for assistance.

Home Use:

Users who just want to print an article to read it offline may freely do so without having to contact the author or the Canadian Rockhound, provided the article will be used for personal and non-commercial home use. Please limit the number of printed copies you make (also note that some articles can be very long!). You can, for example, print all the articles contained within a single online issue, but do not print the entire website.

Schools:

Schools are welcome to print copies of articles from the Canadian Rockhound for educational use in the school classroom. Teachers should contact the author of an article and ask for permission to make printed copies. Authors are usually very cooperative. Students may refer to content in the Canadian Rockhound in their papers or reports. They must give proper credit to the original author and the Canadian Rockhound (see How to Reference an Article below). Citing work without giving proper credit constitutes plagiarism.

How to Give Credit

If you have permission to reprint an article from the Canadian Rockhound in another publication, you must (1) give credit to the author by including the author's name, and (2) give credit to the Canadian Rockhound by including a statement at the beginning of the reprinted article. Here's an example of a credit statement (edit where appropriate):

This article was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2003 (Vol. 7, No. 1) issue of the Canadian Rockhound magazine. The Canadian Mineral Society is pleased to reprint this article with kind permission of the author and the Canadian Rockhound. The article may be viewed in its entirety at the following address: http://www.canadianrockhound.com/2002/01/
cr0206105_topten.html.

How to Reference an Article from the Canadian Rockhound

The Canadian Rockhound recommends the ISO 690-2 convention for citing or referencing electronic documents. This convention provides a simple procedure for properly referencing electronic articles, such as those published on the Canadian Rockhound website. When referencing an article from the Canadian Rockhound, you need to include the following components in your reference:

• Author(s) of the article
• Title of the article
• Title of the magazine/serial (i.e., Canadian Rockhound)
• Type of medium (i.e., online)
• Issue designation (i.e., year, volume, issue number)
• Availability (i.e., world wide web)
• How to access the article (i.e., URL address)

An example of a complete citation is as follows:

• GOULD, Charles A.; JOKELA Jr., Tim; JOYCE, David K.; and SCHMID, Dirk F. Canada's Top Ten Minerals. Canadian Rockhound [online]. 2002, vol. 6, no. 1. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www.canadianrockhound.com/
  2002/01/cr0206105_topten.html>.

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