Adopting or Adapting this OER

Adopting or Adapting this OER

The unique licensing format for this online educational resource (OER) allows students and instructors greater freedom to hold and use the resource in various ways. This OER’s Creative Commons license, as set out in the front material, is governed by the parameters “CC-BY-NC-SA.” Here’s how to interpret these parameters for the purposes of use and reuse (adaptation) of this OER.

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This is the Creative Commons license indicator. Creative Commons is an international non-profit organization which provides licensing forms for sharing work freely. For more information, visit creativecommons.org.

The Creative Commons license allows users of this resource to freely do things like remix or reorder it with new information; build upon it by adding or embedding new text or graphics created by the user; or excerpt and embed the original text with other material or commentary, in any medium or format, such as a website, a video, a handout, or a reading. This list is not exhaustive. When using or adapting the text, however, users must abide by the additional parameters set out below.

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For this OER, the authors have retained copyright. Users are therefore required to cite and attribute the text. If you quote, paraphrase, reuse, or adapt this OER, in any of the ways mentioned above or in other ways, you must still indicate who the original work is BY; that is, you must give credit to the original authors in any use or adaptation.

Here are three model citations. Note that in its digital format, this book does not have page numbers, so when you cite, pinpoint to a chapter or section number. If you download the text as a pdf, then you can pinpoint to a page number.

Whole book:

Christa Bracci & Erica Friesen, Legal Research Online: Information seeking in the digital environment (eCampus Ontario Open Library, 2024). Retrieved <date> from https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/legalresearchonline/.

Chapter or chapter section, digital version:

Christa Bracci & Erica Friesen, “4.1.1 Types of Traditional Secondary Sources” in Legal Research Online: Information seeking in the digital environment (eCampus Ontario Open Library, 2024). Retrieved <date> from https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/legalresearchonline/.

Page number, PDF version:

Christa Bracci & Erica Friesen, Legal Research Online: Information seeking in the digital environment (eCampus Ontario Open Library, 2024) at 45 (pdf). Retrieved <date> from https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/legalresearchonline/.

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Only Non-Commercial (NC) use and reuse of this work is permitted. Use or adaptation by any user, including students and instructors, must not be for monetary compensation or commercial advantage.

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Finally, if you reuse or adapt this work, you must make your new work product available to others using the same licensing terms – CC-BY-NC-SA – under which this OER is made available to you. In other words, share and Share Alike (SA).

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