Creative Commons For Science

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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They aren't the only ones!

[Anonymous Coward]

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404 File Not Found
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Re:Tragedy of the scientific commons?

[goldspider]

Global warming "scientists" have been pulling this off for years and years now without the help of a Creative Commons lisence. I don't see how this would really change anything.