Which Creative Commons license should our journal choose?

Modified on Thu, 27 Jul 2017 at 02:34 PM

That will depend on the needs of your journal and its contributors. 

  • All the licenses require users to provide attribution and allow some further distribution of the articles individually or in collections. 

  • All the licenses include a clause asserting that users "must not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Work which would be prejudicial to the Original Author's honor or reputation." 

  • None of the licenses limit rights that users would have without the license, like fair use. 

  • The selection of an Attribution only (CC BY) license, Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license, or Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) licence (CC BY-NC) is currently required for the DOAJ Seal of Approval.


Read more at the Creative Commons website and in our article on the different licenses.