Butler Community College Libraries & Archives can provide help with copyright questions for BCC faculty, staff, and students. Visit our Help page to get in contact with us.
Disclaimer: Librarians are not legal counsel and should not take the place of legal counsel. The information presented here is intended for informational purposes and should not be construed as legal advice.
Attribution can take many forms depending on the work you have chosen. Below are some examples of common attribution and citation types. If you have any questions about how to formulate proper attribution statements and citations, please contact the Library.
Citations are required when summarizing, quoting, or paraphrasing work that you have not created. Citations are separate from Creative Commons attribution statements and are not interchangeable. Attribution statements point the way to the copyright holders of works whereas citations ascertain that we are not willfully plagiarizing material.
BCC provides all faculty, students, and staff a NoodleTools account. NoodleTools is a citation generator that can create properly formatted citations. It can import full citations from all Library Databases and provides easy to fill out forms for works not found on Library Databases.
See our NoodleTools Guide for step-by-step guides and short videos on how to use NoodleTools.
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides tools and resources for people to easily create, share, and use their own copyright licenses. Not all CC by Licenses are equal and it is important when choosing CC licensed material for use in your class that you follow the guidelines for each license type. Learn more about Creative Commons Licenses.
The infographic below shows how the CC Licenses and icons are used to denote the most to least "open" licenses.
This work is a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Access a transcript of the graphic.
Seven Things To Know About Creative Commons - Educause
Attribution
Content created by Creative Commons, originally published at http://creativecommons.org/examples, under CC by 4.0.