UC Library, as part of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) Consortium, has Read & Publish Agreements with the following publishers:
In addition, discounts for UC authors on article processing charges are available with Elsevier, MDPI, Sage, and Taylor & Francis.
What is a CC licence?
The licences allow users to reuse, remix and share the content legally.
Offering your work under a Creative Commons licence does not mean giving up your copyright. It means permitting users to make use of your material in various ways, but with certain conditions.
There are six standardised CC licences- listed from most to least permissive here:
CC BY includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
CC BY-SA includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
It includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
CC BY-ND includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
ND – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted
CC BY-NC-ND includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
ND – No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted
The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
CC0 (aka CC Zero) is a public dedication tool, which allows creators to give up their copyright and put their works into the worldwide public domain. CC0 allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions.
Current and previous versions of licences
The current suite of version 4.0 international licenses were released in 2013. All previous licence versions remain actively in use, but when licensing a new work, we recommend version 4.0.
References
Copyright
Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL by Council of Australians University Librarians is licensed under CC BY 4.0
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Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0
This Guide was created by Terri Landford and is made available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license