Help:Creative Commons
Please check to make sure you are allowed to upload an image or reuse text. See this video for a good explanation of the different types of creative commons licenses.
Open licensed content (images, video, books, hardware designs) may be added to WikiMSK as support to other pages, or as standalone content such as pages ported from other sources as long as they are shared with a compatible license or express permission has been given..
As there are many ways to find this content, note that these are just some tools to guide you as you search for content.
Using the Right License
You must check that the piece of content (not just the text on the page) is available, not only under an open license, but that this license is as much or more open than our standard license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. This is a copyleft license that requires that all derivative content is shared with the same license to ensure that every contribution on WikiMSK is kept available to anyone in the future.
Images, similar to written texts, are subject to copyright. They therefore belong to someone unless they've been explicitly released by the author into the public domain. The images must be licensed for use directly by the copyright holder. Whenever possible, it is strongly preferable to use images in the public domain, licensed the GFDL, or licensed under creative commons, rather than fair use ones. However this is not always possible, as some extremely key Musculoskeletal published information and graphs are copyrighted.
There may be some legal intricacies with the server being geolocated in Sydney but designed for New Zealand users.
- NZ copyright law is significantly behind the times - no fair use policy for use of work that is published and copyrighted in NZ.
- Australian law - “fair dealings” provision, research or study is an exception (“promoting and facilitating education or research”)
- American law, where most scientific literature is published has fair use provisions for copyrighted material.
- “Probably” OK to reproduce very small portions of a copyrighted paper such as a graph or table as long as it is stated that it is copyrighted and is linked back to the original source. This is a fairly common practice.
Sources of Content
Relevant Medical Wikis
- Radiopaedia - Global radiology wiki. Note that there are many great anatomy illustrations, e.g. this artist and this artist
- WikiSM - A global Sports Medicine wiki
- Orthopaedia - a peer reviewed Orthopaedics wiki
- Wikidoc - Medical encyclopaedia
- Wikiskripta - A Czech medical school wiki
- WikiLectures - A medical school wiki
- WikiMedica - A French Canadian medical wiki
- WikEM - Emergency Medicine
Open Access Publishers and Journals
- Many journals are open access and you can generally use media with attribution See the PubMed Open Access Web Service and filter by creative commons
- Directory of open access journals
- https://www.biomedcentral.com/ e.g BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders and BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation (creative commons)
- https://www.hindawi.com/
- https://plos.org/
- EFORT Open Reviews - see on pubmed
- You can search for open access articles on pubmed, see the guide Please note that open access does not necessarily equate to creative commons. An article can still be copyrighted yet be open access.
Other Sources
- StatPearls - uses CC BY4.0
- Z-Anatomy - Open source anatomy 3D model
- Open-i - images from PubMed Central articles, radiology, and illustrations
- MedPix - medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics
- Creative Commons Search - Creative commons image search
- Bassett Anatomy - Bassett collection of stereoscopic images of human anatomy
- Google image search - search by usage rights
- Openstax - Anatomy and physiology textbook
- OpenStax images - Pictures from OpexStax textbook
- BodyParts3D - 3D body, tricky to use
- Vintage anatomical illustrations
- Wikimedia Commons - Search for images on wikimedia commons
- SMART - Servier Medical ART
- Dissection photos
Videos
- Youtube videos are open access
- Creative Commons - Public Domain Dedication on Vimeo
- Wikimedia commons
Not Creative Commons
- Orthobullets - Orthopaedic Surgery - NOT CREATIVE COMMONS
- Physiopedia - Physiotherapy - They use a lot of creative commons content, including share-alike content which requires that they must be creative commons too, but I haven't found a page that explicitly says that they are Creative Commons. They have this page from 2013 that states they are going to adopt it in "due course", but there is nothing since then. It has become increasingly commercial in recent years and so it would be safest to not reuse any of the content due to the ambiguity.
How to Reuse Content
Reusing Text
To reuse text, click on the 
icon in the editor. It will then load a template to fill out with the required fields, with the license for radiopaedia loaded in automatically. This needs to be changed if it is a different CC license.
{{Article derivation
|article=
|article-link=
|author=
|license=CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
|license-link=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
}}
Reusing Images
Upload the image using the sidebar Upload File link. Select the creative commons license, and attribute the author and put the link where you found it.
Instant Commons
You can use a feature called Instant Commons. Basically this lets you link to any wikipedia commons image without first uploading it to this site. This does seem make the page a little slower though. For example
[[File:0910 Osteoarthritis Hip A.png]]
Re-using Copyrighted Material
Please obtain permission in this case. Many publishers have online application forms to apply for re-use of images and figures. Sometimes this is free because wikimsk is not a commercial entity.
Non-relevant Medical Wikis
The content in these wikis is not relevant but as they run on mediawiki, the code can be reused.
