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We're about to publish a book (conference proceedings) as a PDF online and want to license it under Creative Commons. Before each article, we're giving out information for citing the following article like so:
author, article-title, book-title, publishing-place year, page x–y.

I think it would be best to put the information about the Creative Commons license (in our case CC BY-ND) after this line – what do you think?
Also, I guess it would be a good idea to provide a link to further information about the CC.

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    I have taken the liberty to replace the abbreviation in your question title to the full form - hope you agree with this change. When I first saw the question (without looking at the tags because I was lazy ... but it could really, justifiably happen if the question makes it to the hot questions list, or if it appears in the related or linked questions for any other question) I thought this was referring to the CC field in e-mails, so I was slightly confused when reading it at first.
    – O. R. Mapper
    Commented Jul 15, 2015 at 20:29
  • Oh – right! Thank you, haven't thought about this possibility of confusion.
    – nihilistenhymne
    Commented Jul 15, 2015 at 23:10
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's not about academia.
    – 410 gone
    Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 7:07
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    I am unclear about your question. 1. What is your book about? 2. "Before each text we're giving out information for citing the following text" What do you mean by text? Chapter? Page? Line?
    – Nobody
    Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 7:37
  • @O.R.Mapper: I am glad you didn't suspect the OP of wanting to publish their credit card information in their book :)
    – darij grinberg
    Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 11:52

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This is a good approach. It's helpful to have the license on each "unit" - so if you're putting it up as separate chapters, have a license statement on each chapter. Putting it with the citation is sensible, but make sure it's on a seperate line so it's not seen as part of the citation.

Something like "This chapter is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives license [version]" is good. It should include a link to the license code if possible - otherwise it's not much help if someone doesn't know what the license is!

If the entire book is in a single PDF, or if you have the "front matter" as a seperate PDF, you could put the license + link on the copyright page (reverse of the title page), and it's often common to have a license logo on the (back?) cover as well.

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  • Thank you for your comment and the suggestions I think I'll realise all of them. We're planning on putting the whole book to a single pdf but you never know with pdfs, you can easily split them plus: who reads the imprint..But I'd rather not put the logo anywhere.
    – nihilistenhymne
    Commented Jul 15, 2015 at 18:39

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