How to make information available for use and re-use under the OGL
View the Open Government Licence or find details on the re-use of information under the license below.
To license information under the Open Government Licence, public bodies need to insert, in a prominent and noticeable location in or in the context of the information:
- a clear statement indicating that the information is licensed under the Open Government Licence
- the appropriate hyperlink to the Open Government Licence
- the attribution statement you require users to cite in their products and applications, where these include your information
Copyright notices and statements for public sector bodies
The following statements offer examples how to apply the Open Government Licence to your information to:
Online information resources (including website statements)
© [Insert name of copyright and/or database right owner, if required]
This [insert name of information resource] is licensed under the Open Government Licence [link].
Print publications
This information is licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0. To view this licence, visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU.
Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to: [information provider details].
Copyright notices and statements for Crown bodies
The following statements offer examples how to apply the Open Government Licence to your information to:
Online information resources (including website notices)
© Crown copyright [and/or database right, where applicable], [insert year in which the website was established or last amended].
You may use and re-use the information featured on this website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. We encourage users to establish hypertext links to this website.
Any email enquiries regarding the use and re-use of this information resource should be sent to: psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk.
Print publications
© Crown copyright [insert year of publication] You may re-use this document/publication (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. To view this licence visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence; or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU; or email: psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk.
This document/publication is also available on our website at [insert address]
Any enquiries regarding this document/publication should be sent to us at [insert contact details]
Hyperlinks to the Open Government Licence
It is helpful to tell search engines, like Google, that the link to the Open Government Licence is to a licence, and not a general link. There is a special way to do this in HTML, by using the rel="license" attribute. This will flag up with web crawlers and other internet users using automated systems that the information is subject to a licence with particular terms and conditions which can be found by following the link.
Where, possible, information providers should point to the permanent identifier for the Open Government Licence by embedding the following link:
<a href="http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence" rel="license">Open Government Licence</a>
Alternatively, where information providers do not use the rel="license" attribute, they can put in a simple hyperlink:
<a href=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence">Open Government Licence</a>
Specifying attribution statements
The Open Government Licence requires that users attribute the information provider and source of the information they use. Where you require a specific form of attribution, you should include a statement with the above copyright notices, such as the following example:
When you use this information under the Open Government Licence, you should include the following attribution: [Insert name of information resource, information provider and/or rights owner, date of publication], licensed under the Open Government Licence [insert link].
