Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license by its journals Open programme from the end of October 2012.
For Taylor & Francis-owned Open titles, published under the Routledge Open and Taylor & Francis Open imprints, the publisher will enable authors to sign the Creative Commons Attribution license (known as CC-BY), which allows for unlimited reuse, adaptation and translation of article content, provided that the work is attributed by any subsequent user. This license complies with the RCUK and Wellcome Trust mandates, as authors in receipt of a grant from the Trust, RCUK, or one of RCUK’s constituents, are mandated to publish under this license.
The initial journals moving to the license include: Journal of Biological Dynamics; Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews; Nanoscience Methods; International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials; Materials Research Letters; and Marine and Coastal Fisheries (journal of the American Fisheries Society).
