Licensing and open access

This page provides resources for licensing the open educational resources you create with the tools used in the course. Licensing is a complex topic, but generally content is shared under copyright or with a Creative Commons license such as CC by 4.0.

University Libraries at Virginia Tech provides a Research Guide on Open Education that includes a section dedicated to Creative Commons Licenses.

A license can be added to the footer of a website or you can have copyright or license information in the yaml front matter.

Another option is to create a LICENSE.md file in your repository. This is the recommendation from the Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing lesson from the Carpentries. The usethis package even provides functions that do this for you.