How should I attribute resources that I use from this site?

[Jenny Toerien Keymaster]

All resources on this site (unless otherwise stated) are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are welcome to adapt, use and distribute them under the same license. The Creative Commons wiki has an excellent article on best practices for attribution.

To keep things simple, on our resources page we have put a “Credit” field. A resource may have several authors, but they have decided who should appear in the copyright statement. For example, the resource “Drawing Conclusions from Multiple Perspectives” was produced as a collaboration between the two authors Lucy Breag and Jenny Toerien, but we have decided it is simplest to credit all our resources to Oakham School, so the copyright statement should be:

Drawing Conclusions from Multiple Perspectives by Oakham School is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Notes:

1. As far as possible we have already put a copyright statement on all resources uploaded to the resources section. If you adapt or share the resource outside your organisation you must keep this statement with it.
2. It is considered best practice to hyperlink the statement (although less important if the resource will only ever be used in print!).
3. To make life simpler we have hyperlinked all the titles on statements for resources published on this site to the main resources section, rather than to the individual resources themselves. It means that, for example, the link would survive a slight title change.
4. The author (credit) should be hyperlinked to a page with some information about the author. An organisation website is fine. If an individual is credited you could, for example, link to their FOSIL Group member’s page.
5. I’ve used an abbreviated form of the license descriptor here (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), but the full version (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence) is also fine. CC are very relaxed about the exact wording of the attribution as long as all the relevant information is there.
6. (Note for grammar pedants: Creative Commons is a U.S. organisation so I will deliberately used “license” rather than “licence” throughout this topic.)

[Jenny Toerien Keymaster]

Creating your own derivative resources (“remixing”)

If you create a resource which is entirely your own then it is up to you under what terms you share it – but do be clear if you upload anything to the forum that you do not wish to be CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. If, however, you adapt a resource from the site then you are obliged (under the terms of the license) to share it under the same license. The credit for such a resource should read:

<Title> by <your name or organisation> is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Derived from <Title of resource adapted> by <CREDIT> used under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

For example, FOSIL Cycle by Darryl Toerien is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Derived from The Empire State Information Fluency Continuum by New York City School Library System, used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US.

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