Ways to enhance your student work by finding and including open resources in it, as well as Canadian copyright exceptions from which students can benefit. There will also be information about opportunities for openly releasing your own work so that it can be seen and accessed by others.

1. www.open.usask.ca
How to Find and Use Open Resources, and
Release Your Own Work Openly
Jordan Epp, Instructional Designer (Distance Education Unit)
Kate Langrell, Copyright Coordinator
March 7, 2016

2. “Open Educational Resources (OER)
are freely accessible, openly licensed
documents and media that are useful
for teaching, learning, and assessing
as well as for research purposes.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_education
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3. Benefits of Open Resources
• Increased accessibility
• Easier and faster to find openly available materials
• Less expensive, more equitable access
• Increased usability
• Fewer copyright restrictions
• Fosters creation of new works
• Increased impact/contribution
• Publically funded research available to public
• More exposure, more efficient dissemination
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4. Creative Commons Licenses
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CC-BY
Attribution – This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even
commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of
licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.
CC-BY-SA
Attribution Share Alike – This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for
commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical
terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours
will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
CC-BY-ND
Attribution No Derivatives – This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as
long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
CC-BY-NC
Attribution Non-Commercial – This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-
commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they
don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
CC-BY-NC-SA
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit
you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute
your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new
stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives
will also be non-commercial in nature.
CC-BY-NC-ND
Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often
called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them
with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or
use them commercially.

5. Finding Openly Licensed Work
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6. Finding Openly Licensed Work
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Images
• Google Images (demo)
• Flickr
• Wiki Commons
Other
• https://search.creativecommons.org/

7. Citing Best Practices for CC Images
4 pieces of information to include:
1) Title of work
2) Creator of work
3) Web address (or hyperlink)
4) CC License (with hyperlink)
“Saskatoon, SK” by Kyla
Duhamel (CC-BY-2.0)
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8. Citing Best Practices for CC Images
4 pieces of information to include:
1) Title of work
2) Creator of work
3) Web address (or hyperlink)
4) CC License (with hyperlink)
“Saskatoon, SK” by Kyla
Duhamel (CC-BY-2.0);
Retrieved 02-29-2016
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9. Using Copyright-Protected Materials
• Exceptions for students in Canadian Copyright Act
• Fair Dealing Guidelines
• Can copy a Short Excerpt of a work for the purposes of
research, private study or education
• Definition of Short Excerpt in Fair Dealing Guidelines
• Can use materials available openly online as long as
1) There is no clearly visible notice prohibiting use of
the material for you purpose (e.g., education), and
2) A citation is included
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10. Citing Copyright-Protected Materials
• Follow citation standards for your field of study (e.g., APA,
Chicago, MLA, etc.)
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11. Q: When would I need to get permission from
a copyright holder for using their copyright-
protected work?
A: If you include their copyright-protected work in
something that you create that you want to openly
share (e.g., publish, post on a publically available
website, etc.), then permission from the copyright
holder is required.
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12. Applying an Open License to Your Work
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13. Benefits of Publishing Open Resources
• Contribute to the knowledge pool within your
discipline
• Build a positive online presence/identity
• Employers are Googling you
• E-portfolio/Resume
• Increased notoriety
• Example WGST:
Representations of Gender in Advertising
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14. How to Apply Open Licenses
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Applying an open license can be done to almost
any type of document or file. This can be done
during the upload process on many popular sites
such as:
• YouTube
• Flickr
• WikiCommons
You can also look at some great tools from
Creative Commons:
• http://creativecommons.org/choose/
• Mark Your Work With CC

15. Where to Publish Your Work Openly
• Some subject-specific information available
• E.g., Institute for Healthcare Improvement list
• List of undergraduate philosophy journals
• History journals which publish student work
• Council on Undergraduate Research list
• USURJ: University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research
Journal
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