Tuesday, 17 April 2018

publications - How to publish under a Creative Commons license?



I will defend my PhD thesis soon and I currently have a bunch of papers in a finalization phase. As first author of these papers, and as my work is funded with public money, I am very uncomfortable with the idea of giving my rights to a private editor, for ethical reasons. I would like to release my papers under a Creative Commons-like license or in the public domain (CC0?) but I want them to go through a peer-review process.


How can I do this? (And why do so few researchers seem to be concerned with these ethical problematics?)




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