More than half of 13,000 authors who have recently published in Taylor & Francis journals singled out the permissive CC-BY licence as their least favourite under which to publish their research.
This licence is often used in open-access publishing and allows authors’ work to be used in multiple ways as long as credit is given.
Under its open-access policy, this is also the licence that Research Councils UK requires for the research it funds, when work is made open access via the “gold†journal-based route.
Meanwhile, the option of “exclusive licence to publishâ€, under which the author allows the journal to publish but retains copyright, was the most popular method among academics.
The CC BY-NC-ND licence, the most restrictive of Creative Commons licences available, was the next most popular in the survey, which was carried out at the end of 2012 and in early 2013.
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