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Transformative Agreement: Creative Commons

Transformative agreements are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly publishing towards a fully open access model.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, What can I do with this work?

Source : About CC Licenses - Creative Commons. (2025). https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/

The CC License Options

There are six different license types, listed from most to least permissive :

  1. CC BY
  2. CC BY-SA
  3. CC BY-NC
  4. CC BY-NC-SA
  5. CC BY-ND
  6. CC BY-NC-ND

For further information, please visit : https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses

Commonly Used CC License for Open Access Journals

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

  • Author retains copyright
  • Attribution required
  • Commercial use permitted
  • Changes permitted

Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)

  • Authors retains copyright
  • Attribution required
  • Commercial use not permitted
  • Changes not permitted

Source : IEEE Open Access Updates