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Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-enabled scientific research. We identify unnecessary barriers to research, craft policy guidelines and legal agreements to lower those barriers, and develop technology to make research, data and materials easier to find and use.

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Copyright Policy at the European Commission - Science Commons’ Response

This past July, the European Commission released a green paper on issues pertinent to work in increasing access to scholarly content. The paper, “Copyright in the Knowledge Economy”, raises a number of questions regarding licensing schemes for scholarly content. The following is Science Commons’ submitted response to the Commission on Question 19.
The question reads:
“Should the [...]

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