Questions?
If you have any questions, or if you would like more information, please contact:
Ellen Phillips - Director, Open Educational Resources & Intellectual Property, e.phillips@snhu.edu
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:
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)
Attribution Resources
- How to Give Attribution This link opens in a new windowCreativeCommons.org
- Open Attribution Builder This link opens in a new windowThis application lets you enter information for title, author, license, organization, and project to automatically generate an attribution statement, created by Open Washington.