Nature Precedings: notice board entry
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Precedings now using CC-by 3.0 licenses
- Posted by:
- Hilary Spencer (group admin)
- Date:
- 14 November 2007
- Comments:
- 2 comments
Last week, Nature Precedings switched to using the 3.0 version of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The human readable version and the legal version are both available from the Creative Commons website. Details about changes in the 3.0 licenses are here.
New submissions will be licensed under the CC-by 3.0 license. Documents posted under the CC-by 2.5 license will continue to be licensed under the 2.5 version. Please contact us if you are a Precedings author and wish to upgrade a previous submission to use the 3.0 version.
The Creative Commons FAQ is also a great resource for anyone who has questions about CC-licensing.
Hilary, is there a form that Precedings sends out to authors to sign, or held on your site for authors to download and sign? If not, what is the process by which authors sign? Or does the site itself hold a blanket licence so the fact of posting means the author agrees to those terms as part of the process?
We use a clickthrough licensing process, also known as clickwrap, where authors are required to check a box agreeing to the licensing terms prior to document upload and submission. The full terms of the license are available via a link next to the checkbox.