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Republishing guidelines

Information barriers shouldn’t limit student leaders. We’re one of the few sources providing portable, sector-level knowledge about student government. That is why we publish under Creative Commons (Attribution/No derivatives). Republish our articles online or in print for free by following these guidelines:

For print and online

  • You can’t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style.
  • You have to credit authors and their institutions, ideally in the byline.
  • You have to credit Student Affairs Group and include a link back to either our home page or the article URL. Our preference is a credit at the top of the article and that you include our logo (available below).
  • You can’t sell our material separately, but it’s OK to put our articles on pages with ads.
  • You have to confirm you’re licensed to republish images in our articles. Some images, such as those from commercial providers, don’t allow their images to be republished without permission or payment. Copyright terms are generally listed in the image caption and attribution. You are welcome to omit our images or substitute with your own.
  • Charts and interactive graphics are produced by us and are licensed under the same license as the articles.
  • You can’t systematically republish all of our articles, nor frame the content of our site.

Special cases

  • Extracts: you can run the first few lines or paragraphs of the article and then say: “Read the full article in Student Government Insights” with a link back to the article.
  • Quotes: you can quote authors provided you include a link back to the article URL.
  • Translations: are technically a derivative under our creative commons license and so require author approval. Please contact us at contact@studentaffairsgroup.com, so we can ask the author’s permission.
  • Edits: if you wish to make material edits, you will need to run them by the author for approval prior to publication. Authors can be contacted by the blue Contact button that accompanies their author profile.
  • Signed consent / copyright release forms: are not required, providing you are following these guidelines.
  • Print: articles can be published in print under these same rules, with the exception that you do not need to include the counter and links. We would appreciate it if you would send an image of the republished article to contact@studentaffairsgroup.com so that we can share it with the author.