Just how ‘open’ are you? Examining authors’ attitudes to licences, reuse and distribution
Just how ‘open’ are you? Examining authors’ attitudes to licences, reuse and distribution Understanding how others can use your work and making decisions on the licence you want to apply to your published research is crucial for any author. The open access movement strongly advocates liberal reuse and distribution of content and there has also been a move by UK funders to mandate use of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence when public funds are used to pay for open access publishing. But how does this fit with individual researchers’ attitudes and opinions on licences? Do