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Which Creative Commons licenses does eScholarship recommend?

Modified on Mon, Jan 13 at 1:55 PM

We recommend CC BY and CC BY-NC.

These licenses allow other scholars to build upon authors' work by creating translations or other adaptations, and do not dictate what license – if any – those new works must carry. OASPA (the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) strongly recommends CC BY as a best practice.