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MY DOCTOR TELLS

WE USE THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES:

Expand open access to scholarly literature

Creative Commons copyright provides content producers with licenses that permit reuse of their works. Creative Commons expresses author’s/producer’s preferences in a way that others can identify and trust before using their material.

Over the last few decades, the cost of periodicals and other serial publications has soared. This has stretched library budgets to the breaking point, forcing many libraries to drop subscriptions or reduce their selection. At the same time, keeping the scholarly literature behind behind subscription walls — typically under restrictive licenses — sharply limits its usefulness for the research community.

WHO ELSE USES THESE PRINCIPLES

• 1.
  Howard Hughes Meidcal Institute HHMI
• 2.
  National Institutes of Health Public Access NIH
• 3.
  Welcome Trust
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Science Commons supports new approaches to scholarly publishing and works to expand open access (OA) to the literature. We offer resources you can use to:

SCIENCE COMMONS

Promote open access at your institution — Libraries are a core constituency in furthering open access. We develop resources to help you promote and implement open access policies, including Open Doors and Open Minds [PDF], a “how-to” guide for OA advocates, published in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

Help scholars retain the rights to share their work — The foundation for open access is author’s rights. To help scholars who wish to share their work while retaining copyright, Science Commons created the Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine. The simple interface provides a point-and-click way for authors to choose from among popular addenda to keep a spectrum of rights that would otherwise transfer to the publisher. We encourage you to host the Addendum Engine on your website and offer it as a resource to the community.

CC LEARN creative commons

In addition to providing these tools, Science Commons promotes open access to legal scholarship and has developed a protocol to enable the global research community to pool and share data created under different legal regimes.

Open access to your work — Studies have shown that open access (OA) articles are cited 50-250% more often than non-OA articles published in the same issues of the same journals. To help you retain the rights to open access to your work, Science Commons has created the Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine, deployed in collaboration with institutions such as the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carnegie Mellon University. The Addendum Engine has a simple interface that lets you choose from among the popular copyright agreement addenda for retaining rights when you publish. These addenda ensure that you retain, at minimum, sufficient rights to place your work in an institutional archive or reuse it for your teaching and professional activities. You can also choose an addenda that ensures compliance with your sponsor’s or university’s open access mandate.

CREATIVE COMMONS

To offer additional guidance for implementing open access policy, we have also collaborated with SPARC to publish Complying with the NIH Public Access Policy — Copyright Considerations and Options [PDF], a white paper intended primarily for administrators at institutions who are responsible for ensuring compliance with the NIH policy.

For more details contact:
science@creativecommons.org

Source:
Verbatim from
http://sciencecommons.org/about/how-can-science-commons-help-me/libraries/

Further Reading:Howard Hughes Medical Institute