Reference Citing
by Susan Smith 2 months, 1 week agoHello,
For the OER course which I am teaching the students are required to do research, and write a "scholary" paper (or some do a powerPoint) information they use is both OER and copyrighted. Knowing attribution must be given when using OER, and source cited in the reference list for copyrighted matierial, how would a student cite their OER source in the reference list in APA format. I was unable to find any information about citing OER information in APA format for a reference list.
The course is a basic community college course, where the students are just beginning to grasp citing their sources in a reference list. Has anyone had experience with this?
Thoughts?
Here is what I came up with for the reference list.
Smith, S. (June, 2024) as cited in Betts et al.(April 20, 2022). Medical Terminology for Patient Care. Open Education Resources CC-BY-NC 4.0. https://canvas.yc.edu/courses/45088
This gives attribution to the OER, but also keeps the students in the habit of citing thier sources. I sent an email to Perdue Owl to get their thoughts on OER in APA. Hopefullly, I will hear back today.
I might be misunderstanding, but it seems like it would just be cited like any other APA source depending on source type. If it is a paper housed on the web, then they would cite it just the same as a copyrighted paper. You could ask the students to acknowlege in some way which of the sources are OER and which are copyrighted, just to help with your assessment. You could do an OER reference page and a copyright reference page if you need to see the distinction.
Let me clarify. A student may cite information from an OER textbook. If the requirement is to put all references in APA format how would it look?
Just like any other APA book citation or ebook citation.
This was my thought as well. You would cite it just as you would any other ebook, paper, article, etc. It's interesting to consider a notation for OER materials vs copyrighted ones. I'd not considered requesting that.
Uh. I think of software when I think of references....something llike bibtex. To me, refernences is best left to copy and paste and letting software do the rest. That's how the pros do it.
If an OER source uses another source, then you can probably go to scholar.google.com ... search for it and then copy and paste the appropriate form. I would defnitely show my students that.
Hi Susan,
I have not encountered this yet myself. However, I would hazard that the basic rules for online citation would still apply. Do the resources take the students to other websites that can then be cited as usual? Is there an embedded OER texbook that can also be cited? Or are you refering to the OER course materials themselves that would be found in the modules? If that is the case I don't know how that gets cited exactly.
Carol
If it's a database, I think you can cite the sources that way. Here's a link I found:
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/open-educational-resource-references
Hello! Here is the guidance from APA:
Open educational resource (OER) references (apa.org)
Hope this helps!
Best,
Tanya