For the terms and conditions of the selected license to take effect, your work must be properly marked. This is often achieved by adding a statement that your material is licensed under a chosen license and attaching the link to the webpage where the standard text of the license agreement can be found.
As study documents are available for download and, therefore, can be used offline, a simple indication of the license on an individual webpage of the resource in the Health Study Hub is not sufficient: The license statement and the link to the license text should be inserted directly in the files.
For example, if you decide to license your study document under the CC BY 4.0 license, the following text should be included:
“This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0). To view a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.”
Or you could insert the applicable license buttons with the same statement and URL link.
The Creative Commons help page provides further important information on marking works with a CC license.
NFDI4Health can label your study documents with CC-Licenses for you. You only need to choose your preferred CC-License when filling out our registration form. If you choose a CC BY License, you also must confirm the mandatory questions.