Creative Commons Kiwi

Creative Commons Kiwi

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation offering a globally recognised set of copyright licences. The licences allow you to share your work and have it correctly attributed to you.

When you pay an article processing charge (APC) to make your research open access you will be offered a range of Creative Commons (CC) licences to choose from.

UKRI, the Wellcome Trust and other funders have chosen the CC BY licence as a requirement when they fund open access publishing. CC BY is the most permissive Creative Commons licence, allowing sharing, commercial reuse and modification, provided the original author is credited.

If your funder does not specify which licence they require you can choose the one you prefer.

It is important to carefully consider your choice as the more restrictive licences can prevent reuse in academic research and teaching.

 

The 6 types of Creative Commons licence

Licence Type Permitted use
 CC BY Attribution The user is free to copy, distribute, adapt and use the work for commercial and non-commercial purposes provided appropriate credit is given
CC BY-SA Attribution — ShareAlike As CC BY but the user must share any resulting work under the same licence as the original
CC BY-ND Attribution — NoDerivatives The user is free to copy, distribute and use the work provided appropriate credit is given. The work may not be adapted or translated and must be passed on whole and unchanged
CC BY-NC Attribution — NonCommercial As CC BY but the work cannot be used for commercial advantage
CC BY-NC-SA Attribution — NonCommercial — ShareAlike As CC BY-NC but the user must share any resulting work under the same licence as the original
CC BY-NC-ND Attribution — NonCommercial — NoDerivatives The user is free to copy, distribute and use the work provided appropriate credit is given. The work may not be adapted or used for commercial advantage