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Open Educational Resources (OER)

This guide is intended to provide SNHU faculty/staff information and support in researching open educational resources and copyright/licensing.

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License Information

All original content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 This link opens in a new window International License. 3rd-party content including, but not limited to images and linked items, are subject to their own license terms.

Attributing Openly Licensed Content

A good rule of thumb is to recall the acronym TASL, which stands for Title, Author, Source, and License.

  • Title – What is the name of the material? Provide the title of the work you are adopting.
  • Author (Creator) – Who owns the material? Provide the name(s) of the author(s) or other creator(s) of the material. Sometimes, the licensor may want you to give credit to some other entity, like a company or pseudonym. In those cases, please just do what they request. Also, if the author/creator has a webpage, link to their page.
  • Source – Where did you get the material? Link the title to the original source(s). If a hyperlink is not available, describe where you got the work.
  • License – How can the work be used? Please provide the exact name of the Creative Commons license This link opens in a new window under which the work was released and hyperlink the license name to the license deed page. You can use the acronyms instead of full name of the license.

Example:

Bee on a yellow flower.

Grey Mining Bee - Andrena cineraria This link opens in a new window by Conall This link opens in a new window is licensed under CC BY 2.0 This link opens in a new window.

Title: “Grey Mining Bee - Andrena cineraria”

Author/Creator: Conall This link opens in a new window (linked to profile page)

Source: “Grey Mining Bee - Andrena cineraria This link opens in a new window”  (linked to image on Flickr)

License: CC BY 2.0 This link opens in a new window (linked to Creative Commons License Deed)

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