Which Creative Commons licenses does eScholarship recommend?

Created by Katie Fortney, Modified on Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM by Katie Fortney

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.