How to give Credit to Authors of Previous Adaptations
JCU Library recommends that the authors that contributed to the many iterations of the books they draw upon be acknowledged. By following links back to the original source/s of an adaptation, we can acknowledge the original content creators.
We recommend including an acknowledgements and attributions chapter, an example of which is laid out below.
Acknowledgements and Attributions
This book is an adaptation of the University of Southern Queensland’s Open Publishing Guide for Authors which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence.
This book includes original content mixed with the University of Southern Queensland’s Open Publishing Guide for Authors .
We wish to acknowledge the generosity of the authors that contributed to the University of Southern Queensland’s Open Publishing Guide for Authors and their commitment to open educational practice.
We further acknowledge, with gratitude, all the authors of the source material who generously made their work available for future adaptations.
The source material for the Open Publishing Guide for Authors are listed below:
- 56 Indicators of Impact by J Britt Holbrook, Kelli R. Barr, Keith Wayne Brown, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Accessibility Toolkit (2nd ed.) by Amanda Coolidge, Sue Donner and Tara Robertson, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Best Practices for Attribution by Creative Commons, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Enhancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) in Open Educational Resources (OER) by Nikki Andersen, used under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
- Open Educational Resources Collective Publishing Workflow by Council of Australian University Librarians, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Open Education Self-Publishing Guide by Lauri M. Aesoph, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Open Textbooks @UQ Guide and Templates by the University of Queensland, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- OpenStax Improving Representation and Diversity in OER Materials by Rice University, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Pressbooks User Guide by Pressbooks, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- RMIT Open Publishing Toolkit for Authors by RMIT University, used under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
- Self-Publishing Guide by BCcampus, is used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers by Abbey Elder, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) by Apurva Ashok and Zoe Wake Hyde, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) by Darla Benton Kearney, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- Writing, Editing and Publishing Indigenous Stories by University of Alberta, used under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
