There are many beautiful images of microalgae on the internet. Some of them have a CC attribution. Can I use these images in my publications and how do I correctly cite them?
Dear Anton Lyakh,
I suggested not to use it in scientific paper and can used in lectures with reference to its source.
All the best
There are different CC licenses, so you need to check which one applies to each picture. See here what is allowed for each type of license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Often (but not always), you cannot use them in any kind of commercial product. Papers from journals which are financed by subscriptions, would fall into that category. However, in many Open Access journals, like PLoS One, which uses the CC-license themselves, it would likely be ok to use the images.
Dear Joacim and Fikrat,
Thank you for the answers! As I understood the images with commercial attribution can be published in scientific article.
Correct citation would include the author's name, source (with URL if possible), and exact mention of the chosen license. Of course you need to consider whether the source is trustworthy enough for your purpose, for example if you can rely on their sample identification.
There's a decent summary here:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Cheers
Declan
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