Creative commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information

ZooKeys

Volumn 150, Issue , 2011, Pages 127-149

  Hagedorn, Gregor ^a   Mietchen, Daniel ^b   Morris, Robert A ^c   Agosti, Donat ^d   Penev, Lyubomir ^e   Berendsohn, Walter G ^f   Hobern, Donald ^g  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b EvoMRI Communications   (Germany)

^c University of Massachusetts at Boston Plazi ^*  (Germany)

^d Harvard University   (United States)

^e BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Creative commons; Data sharing; Europeana; Licensing; Non profit; Open access; Open content; Open educational resources; Software licenses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856428197     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2189     Document Type: Review

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