CC-BY license definition

CC-BY license means a copyright license developed by Creative Commons, which allows other users to:

Examples of CC-BY license in a sentence

  • As author of the article, I understand that I shall have the same rights to reuse the article as those allowed to third party users (and the journal) of the article under the CC-BY license.

  • Note: Authors supported in whole or in part by cOAlition S Organisations are able to self-archive their Author Accepted Manuscripts, without embargo, under a CC-BY license or equivalent (or CC-BY-ND upon agreement by the cOAlition S Organisation), from 1 January 2021, in an Open Access repository of their choice.

  • To publish immediate Open Access under a CC-BY license at no cost to the author, keep this selection and click Continue to License to Publish Form at the bottom of the screen.

  • The CC-BY license permits commercial and non-commercial re-use of an open access article, as long as the author is properly attributed.

  • This License applies only to articles published under the ACS AuthorChoice+12 option using the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.

  • Although most of the fully Open Access journals publish open access articles under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License only, the subscription journals and a few of the Open Access Journals offer a choice of Creative Commons Licenses:: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) license and Creative Commons Attribution Non- Commercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND) License.

  • Under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY license, the author(s) and users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) under the condition that they must attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.

  • Any other versions of the Manuscript, including the final version of record of the Manuscript, are subject to APA’s rights in Section 1 above, and the Author(s) are not permitted to post any other versions of the Manuscript under a CC-BY license.

  • License rights: Immediate open access on journal website on the day of publication, access to a PDF copy of the published article, retention of copyright, and the granting of a CC-BY license that permits others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build on the work, even commercially, without permission−provided that credit is given to the original authors and journal.

  • If you have selected a funder or 'ULA' from the drop down menu then the Work will be published under the CCBY license i.e., Section 3.b. of the Agreement will apply to the Work, and Section 3.a. of the Agreement will not apply to the Work.