Creative commons for academic library
Attribution Required


  You are free to ... Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. 


The Creative Commons license blatantly specifies right in the license that attribution is required for a CC-BY-ND. 

There are some things that you can do to help communicate this, like linking to the license, making the license more prominent, copy-pasting the terms of the license, or even appealing to emotional sensibilities.

What's On The Internet...

However, no matter what you do, what is on the internet is prone to being copied, used, and modified in any manner of ways, including stripping attributions. This is the risk that all content-creators take. Whether or not it is worth the risk is up to you.

DMCA Take Down Requests

If you decide to release your content to the internet and you find that your content license is being infringed, you may be eligible for a DMCA Take Down Request on the hosting website. If the website company will not, you can then go to search companies like Google and go through their process to remove the listings (greatly reducing its visibility).