Science Commons

Science Commons (SC) was a Creative Commons (CC) project from 2005 to 2009. The aim was to develop strategies and tools for faster and more efficient web-based science. To do this, Science Commons identified unnecessary hurdles in research and wrote regulations and contracts to reduce them. In addition, Science Commons created technologies that should help to find and use data and materials more easily in research. The project language was limited to English.

Creative Commons ended the project in 2009.

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The publishers BioMed Central in the UK, PLoS in the US and Hindawi Publishing Corporation in Egypt use licenses from Science Commons. The Nature Publishing Group has also published some journals among them.

Web links

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• Official Science Commons website
• heise.de: Creative Commons for a birthday: Science Commons license starts (from January 6, 2005)
• Science Commons on the Digital Curation Center website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What does Creative Commons mean for science? ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Wired , December 15, 2011