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Attribution of Creative Commons Images

If the creator of an image provides guidance on how an image should be attributed you should comply with the creators request.

When no guidance is offered a good attribution should include the following:

  • Title of the work
  • Creator, with a link to their profile page
  • Source, with a link to the original photo
  • License, with a link to the license deed

LibGuides and Copyright

All Vanderbilt University library research guides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license which appears at the bottom of each research guide above the footer.  Given that we encourage guide users (both internal and external) to reuse and repurpose our guide content, it’s important that all content be reusable and that we do our due diligence with respect to content under copyright.

Images, graphics, and clip art require extra scrutiny.  Except book covers supplied through Springshare’s agreement with Bowkers, or icons and screenshots that you or your colleagues have created, all images in a research guide should either be available in the public domain or have a Creative Commons license.

Creative Commons images must be attributed per the terms of the license accompanying the image.

The following sites offer Public Domain and Creative Commons images:

Clip Art and Icons
Stock Images and Photography