Once you have the “thing” you want to licence, you just have to decide where to put it, so it can be found.

Luckily, there are a lot of options here. Creative Commons licensed content can literally be hosted anywhere that allows for CC licensing. OERs are determined by their educational value and their openness, NOT by the location where they are housed.

“Tens of billions of CC-licensed works exist across millions of websites. The majority are hosted on content platforms that provide CC license options for their users.” – https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/

Depending on what type of content you have produced, you can choose the appropriate platform. If you work at a post-secondary institution you might have access to a “repository” already. Check with your library. As you have seen, many institutions have OER libraries and in BC check out BCcampus and if in Ontario visit ecampusOntario.  to submit or contribute OERs.

• Photos/Images: Flickr, Wikimedia Commons.
• Video: YouTube, Vimeo.
• Audio/Music: Bandcamp, Free Music Archive, Tribe of Noise, Jamendo, SoundCloud
• Text/Documents: Internet Archive, Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons. BCcampus
• 3D Models: Sketchfab

Make sure to add as much metadata as possible, so your content can be found, is searchable and can be accurately attributed.

FINAL STEPS

1. Use the License Chooser: Visit the CC website to select the right license and get the HTML code.
2. On Platforms: When uploading, select “Creative Commons – Attribution” in the license settings (e.g., YouTube’s “Advanced” tab).
3. On Personal Websites: Paste the HTML code provided by the chooser.
4. Offline/Documents: Add text, such as “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License” along with the CC icon.