# Usage question, can my researchers keep using the binder for their work if we cite binder in publication?

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**Created:** [December 22, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/usage-question-can-my-researchers-keep-using-the-binder-for-their-work-if-we-cite-binder-in-publication/7240 "2020-12-22T22:33:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/usage-question-can-my-researchers-keep-using-the-binder-for-their-work-if-we-cite-binder-in-publication/7240/2 "2020-12-23T00:31:43Z")

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Short answer is an emphatic ‘Yes’ given that is exactly the type of activity Binder is meant to encourage.

More thoroughly:  
It sounds like you yourself would have say over how the code the researchers are adapting is credited. See [here](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/licensing-a-repository).  
Additionally, since it sounds like everyone involved is using Binder to develop, share, and analyze that code and the output, then all parties citing Binder would be greatly appreciated. (The information is [here](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-cite-binder/2006/3) [more directly [here](https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/about.html#how-can-i-cite-binder) at present].)

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