SPARC Partners with Science Commons
SPARC and Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons, have teamed up to enhance the functionality of the SPARC Author Addendum. The SPARC Author Addendum allows authors to retain critical rights, including the right of authors to post articles in online repositories. Science Commons is creating a machine-readable version of the SPARC Author Addendum that can be read by Internet search engines, as well as a text version that functions as a legal tool. The enhanced SPARC Author Addendum will be made available on the SPARC Web site (www.arl.org/sparc) once the project is completed in early spring.
The effort represents a continuation of Science Commons’ effort to promote access and voluntary sharing in scientific publications. This cooperation advances three goals shared by SPARC and Science Commons: to support authors right to distribute scholarship over the Internet, to promote access and reuse of the scientific literature, and to facilitate author self-archiving. For more information about the enhanced SPARC Author Addendum, please see www.arl.org/sparc.
SPARC e-news, December 2005 – January 2006
http://www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/enews/dec05.html
