Selecting an open license: Options when opening your publications and data

Poster created for Love Data Week 2024, updated for Open Access Week 2025. "To be considered “open”, publications, data, and software should clearly state how they can be used and shared by others. In most cases, Creative Commons licenses are used because they are simple and widely known, but the legal language of the similar Open Data Commons licenses can be considered more relevant for datasets, and other licenses such as MIT and GPL are more appropriate for software and code."

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2025-10-24
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10572542
Primary Topic
Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
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Selecting an open license: Options when opening your publications and data

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
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Selecting an open license: Options when opening your publications and data

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Abstract

Poster created for Love Data Week 2024, updated for Open Access Week 2025. "To be considered “open”, publications, data, and software should clearly state how they can be used and shared by others. In most cases, Creative Commons licenses are used because they are simple and widely known, but the legal language of the similar Open Data Commons licenses can be considered more relevant for datasets, and other licenses such as MIT and GPL are more appropriate for software and code."

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (CH)
Openalex Percentile: Top 43%
Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
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