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"Which Creative Commons License is Right for Me?" by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation available under CC BY 2.5.
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This guide was adapted, in part, from Lansing Community College's Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by Regina Gong, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.