[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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