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by Old_Thrashbarg 3383 days ago
I don't see it written explicitly; can anyone confirm that this journal is fully open-access?
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colah3 3383 days ago
Yes. Everything is published under Creative Commons Attribution.

(One of the members of our steering committee, Michael Nielsen, has a significant history advocating for open science. I think there's about a snowball's chance in hell he'd be involved if we weren't. :P )

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mlinksva 3383 days ago
It's not super clear what if any license is offered for code and data, eg from http://distill.pub/2016/misread-tsne/

> Diagrams and text are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 2.0, unless noted otherwise, with the source available on GitHub. The figures that have been reused from other sources don’t fall under this license and can be recognized by a note in their caption: “Figure from …”.

Ideally code and data would be unambiguously public domain (CC0-1.0) or under appropriate open source and open data licenses.

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auvrw 3383 days ago
> Everything is published under Creative Commons Attribution.

this is tres bien.

same for data sets?

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rspeer 3383 days ago
That would preclude most research data.

If you use Wikipedia as an input, for example, your data is CC-By-SA, not CC-By.

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tyingq 3383 days ago
Seems to be here: http://distill.pub/journal/

Passages like:

"Distill articles must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution license."

With a little more flexibility to keep things private before publishing: "You can keep it private during the review process if you would like"

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