[open-science] Fwd: [sc-announce] "CC0 endorsed in Nature opinion piece" - Science Commons blog

Mon Sep 21 18:46:08 UTC 2009

This is fantastic news:

  http://sciencecommons.org/?p=1161

Also the Nature special on data sharing might be of interest on this list:

  http://www.nature.com/news/specials/datasharing/index.html

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From: Kaitlin Thaney <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Subject: [sc-announce] "CC0 endorsed in Nature opinion piece" -
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CC0 endorsed in Nature opinion piece

September 9th, 2009 by Kaitlin Thaney

A new opinion piece in Nature on post-publication sharing of tools
explicitly recommends open sharing and the use of CC0 to put data in
the public domain. The special issue of Nature focuses on data sharing
and is now online and accessible free of charge.

The piece “Post-publication sharing of data and tools” comes out of
this year’s CASIMIR conference in Rome, and discusses the sharing of
biological materials, specifically but not limited to mice and
embryonic stem cells.

As you may recall, we initially wrote about this meeting back in June,
following the publication of a similar opinion piece calling for
better and more efficient sharing practices for physical materials.
That article also stemmed from this meeting in Rome.

This opinion piece takes those ideas one step further in the
discussion to a formal recommendation for open sharing under the least
restrictive terms possible.

“[T]he Rome meeting strongly encouraged sharing behaviours that
promote a ‘research commons’. The heart of a research commons is one
in which academic research is not impeded by restrictions on use and
access to data and materials, in line with the principles of the
Creative Commons.”

The piece is chock-full of stellar recommendations that Science
Commons supports, from better and more explicit resource sharing
policies at journals and funding bodies, to the use of standard MTAs,
to making data open and putting it in the public domain using CC0, our
public domain waiver.

“Although it is usual practice for major public databases to make data
freely available to access and use, any restrictions on use should be
strongly resisted and we endorse explicit encouragement of open
sharing, for example under the newly available CC0 public domain
waiver of Creative Commons.”

We highly encourage a deeper read of the article for more tips on how
to share resources more efficiently, as well as giving this article a
read for more on pre-publication data sharing.

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Kaitlin Thaney
Program Manager
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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