Back in August we announced that all data published in BioMed Central articles would be published under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain waiver for data. At that time, we also announced our intention to upgrade the attribution component of BioMed Central’s license agreement from CC-BY 2.0, which we introduced as our standard license in… Read more »
What follows is a guest blog on the new CC-BY 4.0 license written by Puneet Kishor, Manager, Science and Policy Data at Creative Commons. CC 4.0, the latest version of Creative Commons (CC) licenses, was officially launched on November 25, 2013. CC licenses are free, easy-to-use and provide a simple, standardized way to allow… Read more »
This blog was jointly written by Ben Johnson, Associate Publisher of Flavour Journal here at BioMed Central, and Amye Kenall, our data guru, who spearheads open data initiatives and advocacy. Take time to enjoy this morsel of open data goodness. Earlier this week, at a research press conference involving a Champagne tasting for our journal Flavour,… Read more »