the Swahili Resource website
Submitting material
SUBMISSION OF MATERIAL
Background
SwahiliWeb’s aim is to make available to the public personal and institutional archives created by individuals working in the Swahili world. We encourage the submission of documents of all kinds: field notes, oral histories, manuscripts, photographs, sound and film. We prefer wherever possible to have material which is already digitised, but will also consider whether other documentation is sufficiently important to accept and digitise. However, it should be understood that this site is run by academics on a voluntary basis and we would not be able to digitise large amounts of material.
Please note that SwahiliWeb does not hold closed archives, nor restrict public access to archives, thus owners of archives requiring confidentiality or access restrictions should seek an alternative depository.
SwahiliWeb endeavours, as far as possible, to ensure that end users are aware of copyright restrictions on files, but it is the nature of the Internet that ultimately we exercise little if any control over the use of these files once they have been downloaded from or viewed on the SwahiliWeb site. Those submitting files should bear this in mind. Users will be required to accept our terms and conditions of use, acknowledge SwahiliWeb, the authors and the copyright owners as sources; and files will, where possible, be watermarked to indicate their provenance and copyright.
SwahiliWeb welcomes both suggestions for inclusion and submissions of materials for the site.
Access and Rights
The property will be made fully available to the public in accordance with SwahiliWeb policy. If you wish for certain parts of the property to be withheld temporarily from public access, please provide a brief description of the reasons for your request. Please note that such restrictions are at the discretion of SwahiliWeb; they may only be of a temporary character and in any case for no longer than one year from the date of submission.
SwahiliWeb’s policy is that copyright of all materials deposited with SwahiliWeb remains with the copyright holder. Those seeking copyright and associated permissions will be referred to the copyright holder.
SwahiliWeb acts as an electronic depository and archive. We do not hold hard copies of original materials of any sort and strongly recommend that all donors of electronic documents retain identical copies of all files.
The process of depositing
Please contact us here if you have material you would like to submit.