Smithsonian magazine buys one-time publication rights to articles.
Once our readers and the newsstands receive the current issue, the rights to the text immediately revert back to the individual writers. We would be violating copyright laws if we put full text online. The story editors, however, provide our readers with an abstract of each article. We will gladly forward a letter on behalf of a reader, but we cannot guarantee that the addressee will respond. We have no immediate plans to publish the index.