BMC Research Notes | Abstract | Open by default: a proposed copyright license and waiver agreement for open access research and data in peer-reviewed journals

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Open by default: a proposed copyright license and waiver agreement for open access research and data in peer-reviewed journals
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and Matthew Cockerill
BMC Research Notes 5 (1), (07 Sep 2012)
Provisional version, in production. From the Abstract: Here we detail a protocol for implementing a combined Creative Commons Attribution license (for copyrightable material) and Creative Commons CC0 waiver (for data) agreement for content published in peer-reviewed open access journals. We explain the differences between legal requirements for attribution in copyright, and cultural requirements in scholarship for giving individuals credit for their work through citation. We argue that publishing data in scientific journals under CC0 will have numerous benefits for individuals and society, and yet will have minimal implications for authors and minimal impact on current publishing and research workflows. We provide practical examples and definitions of data types, such as XML and tabular data, and specific secondary use cases for published data, including text mining, reproducible research, and open bibliography. We believe this proposed change to the current copyright and licensing structure in science publishing will help clarify what users -- people and machines -- of the published literature can do, legally, with journal articles and make research using the published literature more efficient. We further believe this model could be adopted across multiple publishers, and invite comment on this article from all stakeholders in scientific research.
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