Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Their free copyright licenses provide a simple and standardized way to give the public permission to share and use an author’s creative work — on conditions set by the author. 

From 1 April 2013, Research Councils UK and Wellcome Trust ask researchers who produce work as a result of research being funded by them, to publish papers in open access journals using a CC-BY license or equivalent. A CC-BY-NC license or equivalent is to be used for papers that are alternatively deposited in an open access institutional repository.

Attribution CC-BY:

You can:

• share
• copy
• distribute
• transmit
• remix

a work for commercial purposes as long as you attribute the work.

Attribution-NonCommercial/ CC-BY-NC:

You can:

• share
• copy
• distribute
• transmit
• remix

a work for non-commercial purposes as long as you attribute the work.