Copyright Permission Requests

Before you submit a permission request, please make sure that the material you wish to reproduce belongs to SAGE Publications or Paul Chapman Publishing and is not credited to another source. You can find credit lines in the footnotes, acknowledgment pages, captions, or lists of figures and tables, and sometimes on the copyright page. If the material is credited to another source, you must direct your request to that other party and not to SAGE Publications.

Permissions requests for books published by SAGE Publications from our California office, or by Pine Forge Press or Corwin Press can be submitted here.

Small Extracts/Abstracts

Not all usage of copyright material requires official clearance. According to the concept of 'Fair Dealing' it is possible to reproduce

'one extract of less than 400 words or a series of extracts from the same Work up to a total of 800 words of which no single extract should be more than 300 words'

without obtaining permission as long as a full acknowledgement is given to the author, title publisher and year of publication.

Classroom use

To ensure prompt and efficient response, SAGE Publications refers all academic course use requests to the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) for processing. We have authorised CLA to grant permission for reproducing our materials and to collect royalty fees. Please contact CLA directly:

Copyright Licensing Agency
90 Tottenham Court Road
London W1P 0LP
Telephone: 020 7631 5555
Fax: 020 7631 5500
Email cla@cla.co.uk

Permissions requests:

In order to obtain permission to use Sage Publications material you will need to fill in all the appropriate fields of this letter and email it as an attachment to either:

• books-permissions@sagepub.co.uk or
• journals-permissions@sagepub.co.uk

depending on the type of Sage material requested.

Please note, if there are relevant sections of the letter which have not been filled in, we may be unable to process your permission request. Please leave 6 weeks for your request to be processed.

Requests for Visually Impaired & Disabled Persons

For information on Requests for Visually Impaired & Disabled Persons click here