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Compiling publication agreements used by scholarly journals
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Compiling publication agreements used by scholarly journals

This repository aims to compile a list of agreements used by scholarly publishers. It attempts to provide a resource to answer the following tweet:

Does anyone know of a compilation of copyright transfer / license to publish agreements used by scholarly journals? #asapbio

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01.romeo.ipynb downloads information from SHERPA/RoMEO's API and extract copyright links. Links are saved in data/romeo-publisher-links.tsv.

License

All original work in this repository is dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 license. See LICENSE.md.

SHERPA/RoMEO releases its data downloads under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 License according to the following statement in romeo-publishers.xml:

SHERPA/RoMEO data is available for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 licence. For more details, please see the 'conditions for re-use' at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeoreuse.html, and linked-to from the SHERPA/RoMEO home page.

Therefore, datasets derived from romeo-publishers.xml in this repository are also released under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 License. This includes romeo-publisher-links.tsv.