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Creative Commons For Science

Posted by timothy on from the piper-payers-ask-to-call-tune dept.

chrisspurgeon writes "The folks at Creative Commons are rolling out a new project aimed at improving the dissemination of scientific publications and data. The National Institutes of Health is already proposing mandated Open Access to all NIH-funded research, and many scientists welcome the free redistribution of their papers, they just don't know the legal details of how to do it. The Science Commons project will take on the copyright problems unique to scientists (things like pre and post prints, and electronic vs. paper journal distribution)."

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  1. BBC Radio 4 by JaxWeb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    BBC Radio 4 did a radio program about the publish problems in Science, especially Physics, recently. I thought it was very good.

    You can listen to it online from the BBC website. It requires Real Player, however.

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    - Jax