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Scholarly Communications

A guide created to discussion numerous aspects of scholarly communication, such as: open access publishing, copyright and creative commons licensing, scholarly profiles, and the h-index

Creative Commons Licensing

Creative Commons (CC) copyright licenses allow flexibility within the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates.

CC licenses give everyone a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.

Combine the different license permissions to get just what you need. See our Creative Commons Basics for further details on CC and its licenses.

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