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MDPI adopting CC-BY licenses for its journals Switzerland's Molecular Diversity Preservation Initiative (MDPI) is moving toward CC-BY licenses for its journals. See Dietrich Rordorf's announcement on ChemSpider:
Comment. Kudos to MDPI. I'm pleased in part because CC-BY is the most open license short of assignment to the public domain, and in part because this move is independent of last week's launch of the SPARC Europe seal program, which encourages OA journals to adopt CC-BY licenses. The MDPI action arose from its own history of OA and a recent professional discussion of OA in chemistry. The two moves together suggest some convergent momentum for CC-BY licenses at OA journals. Update. The MDPI editorial announcing the new policy, Changes Coming to MDPI Journals: Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and Creative Commons Attribution License (May 2, 2008), is now online. |