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Which Creative Commons license should our journal choose?

Modified on Mon, Jan 13 at 1:55 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. 


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