Getting Textbooks to Zero Student Cost: ZTC and OER

Attribute Responsibly

When you use OERs, you need to give credit via an attribution near the reused material. For example, a YouTube video with a Creative Commons (CC) license needs to have the license stipulated and linked to the appropriate CC license webpage above or below the video. Think of this a bit like citations within the text of a document. 

TASL Method

• Most attributions can be made using the TASL method.
  • Title
  • Author
  • Source
  • License (this must be linked to the actual license deed)
• Example: "What are Creative Commons Licenses?" by U of G Library is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Best Practices

• "Best Practices for Creative Commons attributions" by New Media Rights is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• "Attribution Statements for Remixed OER Content" by Amy Hofer is licensed CC BY 4.0.
• "Best Practices for Attribution Wiki" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Link Rot / Dead Links

• When writing an attribution statement for a source when the original source has been taken offline, use the Wayback Machine to potentially generate an archived link. 
• Wikipedia's method for link rot is to source the link to the Wayback Machine with "Archived from the original [ink to the original] on [date referenced in the Wayback Machine]
  • review examples 9, 10, 12

Attribution Builders

The generators below may be helpful for creating attributions.