OER at Georgian

When ADAPTING Creative Commons licensed information, you are required to provide attribution to the original source. Remember:

• The main goal is to provide clear and complete information giving credit to the original source
• If your source has attributions or citations within it, remember to maintain those in your copy
• Review the info under "Mixing OER & Selecting your license" to ensure your adapted/new OER meets the CC guidelines

Best practices: Sample attribution for a source you ADAPTED (from Creative Commons guidelines)

Provide the following info:

1. The name of the new content you created - eg: "ADAPTING CC Sources"
2. A statement about the adaptation - is a derivative of
3. The original title - "Best practices for attribution" (link to the original source)
4. The original creator - by Creative Commons (link to the original creator profile or website)
5. CC license info - used under CC BY 4.0 (link to the CC license info on web)
6. Then finish with your new CC license - "ADAPTING CC sources" is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Jen Booth - Georgian College Library

Possible variations:
If your own CC license selection is listed elsewhere on the page, you can omit the the author as it's listed/provided elsewhere.

Include your own info first and a statement about the work you adapted:

This work, "Adapting CC Sources", is a derivative of "Best practices for attribution" by Creative Commons used under CC BY 4.0.

Sources that are in the Public Domain or licensed under CC0 are available to reuse, revise, remix, redistribute and retain.

Best practices for use in your OER:

• Make an effort to find the original owner/creator (try a reverse Google search for images)
• Provide a CC attribution or citation with as much info as possible

When citing:

• Add the statement Licensed under CC0 at end of your attribution or  Public Domain instead of the CC BY-NC license statement
• Using APA 7, create the reference according to APA 7th guidelines and include CC0 at the end of the reference

Sample CC Attribution statement:

Sample APA reference:

Sample APA in-text citation (place in-text):

Source: Wintec Library. (2021, September 22). How do I reference a creative commons image? In APA 7th Edition Referencing Guide1. Retrieved September 22, 2021 from https://libguides.wintec.ac.nz/APA7/creative-commons-images#s-lg-box-wrapper-25341075

If you are REPRODUCING Copyrighted content in your OER (eg: an article, image or infographic for which you don't own the Copyright), you will want to ensure copyright compliance.

Best practices for adding a REPRODUCTION of copyright material to your OER:

• Check with the Library to ensure copyright compliance before including
• Review the info on using multiple images from the same copyrighted source
• Explore alternatives if your selected content does not meet copyright guidelines
• Be prepared to cite and reference the original source

Citing & Referencing copyrighted material:

• Use APA or your preferred citation style
• Decide how you will collect & display references (eg: footnotes, endnotes, at point of use)
• Consider adding an acknowledgement of materials that are used under the Fair Dealing exception
  • At the front of the book (indirect)
  • At the point of use / citation (direct)

Consider sources & Select a license for your OER:

If you are ADAPTING or CREATING a larger OER project, such as a textbook or set of modules, you will likely need to mix different sources which may have different copyright/CC licenses applied to them.

Best practices when mixing/re-mixing multiple sources with multiple licenses

• Include a statement about adaptation in the introductory materials of your OER (Sample adaptation)
• Include a statement (in front matter, directly where used, or both) that specifies what material (if any) is used under Fair Dealing