11.07.2025
The Route to an Open Scholarly Ecosystem Runs through CC BY
« Creative Commons (CC) licenses are foundational to open scholarship because they set more or less standardized conditions for permissible reuse of articles and other intellectual works. Such conditions range from zero restrictions to simply giving credit to the creators to sharply limiting users’ freedom to share or adapt certain works. Reuse is essential to advancing innovative and equitable scholarly communication, enabling knowledge to be more widely shared, translated, and built on. To facilitate these goals, many publishers offer permissive licenses to authors, but some co-opt essential author rights or offer authors a baffling smorgasbord of license options. (…) »
source > katinamagazine.org, Michael Rodriguez, 2 juillet 2025
