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Byline: Tracey Caldwell

Commons copyright targets scientists

Tracey Caldwell

Authors can hold onto their copyright more easily with the release of new online tools.

Science Commons, a project by copyright body Creative Commons, has got together with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (Sparc) to draft amendments to copyright agreements that will make it easier for authors to retain rights, including the right to reuse their articles and to post them in repositories.

"This is about authors' rights," said John Wilbanks, vice-president of Science Commons. "Right now, authors trade the most important rights -- like the right to make copies of their own scholarly works -- to traditional publishers. That trade has led to an imbalanced world of restricted access to knowledge, skyrocketing journal prices, and an inability to apply new technologies to the scholarly canon of knowledge."

He told IWR that there had been little publisher response to the ...

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