Edusources is a national platform where educators and other professionals share educational resources. These can include videos, documents, and presentations. By publishing your content to Edusources, you make it easier for others to discover and reuse your materials, helping to promote the use of open educational resources.

Thanks to the integration between our media platform, media.saxion.nl, and Edusources, you can easily publish your media to Edusources by publishing it to the channel titled: Submit for public publication on Edusources All Saxion educators can add their media to this channel.

1. Upload or open your media in media.saxion.nl
2. To publish your media to Edusources, the following fields are required:
   1. Name - Give your media a clear title. Avoid using special characters, such as underscores.
   2. Description - Provide a brief description of the media.
   3. Tags - Add relevant keywords to improve discoverability.
   4. Language - Specify the original language of the media.
   5. License - if you do not use a creative commons license and leave this field empty, the default license "All Rights Reserved" will be applied. Under this license, others may share a link to your media, but they may not reuse or modify it.
   6. Author - Enter the name of the person or organization that created the content.
3. You may also complete any of the other metadata fields if you wish. These are optional and are not required for publishing to Edusources.
4. Next, open the media in the editor, or click the three dots (⋮) next to the media item and select Publish (Status).
5. Choose Published and select the channel titled Submit for public publication on Edusources.
6. Finally, click Save.

Your media file has now been published to the channel. However, it will not be visible immediately, as it first needs to be reviewed by information specialists from the Saxion Library. They check whether the metadata fields have been filled in correctly and whether copyright requirements have been met. If there are any questions, the media owner will be contacted. Once the media file has been approved, it will be automatically published on Edusources, where others will be able to use your media.

• The source will remain available in the media platform media.saxion.nl. On Edusources, a page will be published containing all metadata and a link to the source in our own media platform.
• You help colleagues by sharing your materials.
• You increase the visibility of your work.
• You contribute to open education!