Open Licensing

Individual authors will retain copyright of their work, with Creative Commons licenses used to communicate how others make access and use the work. The overall book will be licensed CC BY-NC-SA. Authors and editors will not be compensated for their work but will be credited as the author. Poems, stories, and essays will include an author biography with references to the author’s other publications and recommended resources.  Layering Creative Commons licenses over existing copyrights provides clarity regarding others' legal access and use of the materials. This open licensing encourages sharing of knowledge and creativity and enables the work to be considered an open educational resource (OER). Teachers and students will be able to reuse, translate, and share the work so long as they include attribution, use it for non-commercial purposes, and carry the same license forward on works which build on or incorporate portions of this book. Because OER are free, they expand equitable access to learning and make it possible for teachers, families, and schools to distribute high-quality learning materials widely.  While there are various OER websites, some have a registration fee and some are not curated by young adult researchers and educators, so their collections are not necessarily inclusive and affirming representations of youth.

Kathy Esmiller, not part of the review process, consulting support regarding creative commons licensing. Questions about intellectual property and how it is true that you are retaining copyright. kathy.essmiller@okstate.edu.