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Licensing Open Content

Published on 1 June 2015

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief general introduction to the Open Licensing of content with a particular focus on the licensing of bibliographic information (metadata) about research publications. The paper highlights the use of the Creative Commons suite of licenses as the most widely used and understood standard for licensing open content.

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IDS
authors
Playforth, Rachel
language
English

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