Creative Commons Licenses: Empowering Open Access

Creative Commons and the openness of open access.

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Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases

This paper discusses the problem of lack of clear licensing and transparency of usage terms and conditions for research metadata. Making research data connected, discoverable and reusable are the key enablers of the new data revolution in research. We discuss how the lack of transparency hinders discovery of research data and make it disconnected from the publication and other trusted research ...

Open Source Licenses and the Creative Commons Framework: License Selection and Comparison

Numerous licenses confuse new participants in the free/open source software (FOSS) world. In this paper, we provide a general introduction to eleven commonly-used FOSS licenses. By applying seven specific considerations that are proposed in our study, developers can identify which license suits their needs best. We further use the above considerations to rank these FOSS licenses, which are Open...

The Brave New World Of Open Access & Creative Commons: A Humanistic Experiment In Mathematical Publishing

In January 2011 the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (JHM) published its first issue. JHM (http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access journal which has passed the all-important tenthousand-download barrier in its first anniversary. In order to remain faithful to the fundamental principles of open access, JHM uses Creative Commons licensing, where author...

Open Access, the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, and the Nutrition Society journals.