[sc-announce] NPG introduces a CC license for genome research - Science Commons blog

Kaitlin Thaney kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Thu Dec 6 14:16:42 EST 2007


http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/12/06/npg-cc-licenses-genome-research/


      NPG introduces a CC license for genome research

December 6th, 2007 
<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/12/06/npg-cc-licenses-genome-research/> 
by Kaitlin Thaney

In a move to make genome research more accessible, Nature Publishing 
Group 
<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/12/06/npg-cc-licenses-genome-research/www.nature.com> 
(NPG) has introduced a new editorial policy that will put genome 
research published by Nature under a CC-BY-NC-SA license 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>. The license grants 
readers the ability to share and remix the material under the following 
conditions: the work must be attributed to the author as specified by 
the author of licensor, cannot be used for commercial purposes, and that 
any derivative works be licensed under the same or a similar license. 
NPG's editorial policy can be read in full here 
<http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html>.

An editorial posted today discusses some of the reasoning behind 
enacting this new author license policy.

 From the /Nature/ editorial, "Shared genomes" 
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/450762b.html> 
(December 6, 2007):

    "In the continuing drive to make papers as accessible as possible,
    NPG is now introducing a 'creative commons' licence for the reuse of
    such genome papers. The licence allows non-commercial publishers,
    however they might be defined, to reuse the pdf and html versions of
    the paper. In particular, users are free to copy, distribute,
    transmit and adapt the contribution, provided this is for
    non-commercial purposes, subject to the same or similar licence
    conditions and due attribution. [...]"

This is definitely a step in the right direction for Open Access, and we 
always cheer use of CC licenses, although I wish they'd chosen the 
Attribution license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>. The 
Non-Commercial and ShareAlike provisions of CC-BY-NC-SA 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/> seem to be in 
conflict with some of the terms 
<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/boaifaq.htm> in the Budapest 
Declaration. But anything that gets us closer to OA and supports the 
open licensing of foundational research papers is good medicine, indeed.

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Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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