DEAL consortium recommends CC BY
When publishing content in open access, authors need to ask themselves which license is the right one. Creative Commons licenses help you to agree on what you are allowed to do with protected content. There are different licenses, depending on what you as the author want to allow or what conditions you set.
The DEAL consortium is launching an information campaign aimed at raising awareness among academic authors in Germany of the relevance of choosing an appropriate license for open access publications. Like the HSZG and the University Library, the consortium recommends the CC BY license. In this case, the content may be used, modified and shared both privately and commercially, provided the author is named.
The HSB would be delighted if we could get you on board with this important topic as a scientific author in Germany.
DEAL is an initiative of the Alliance of German Science Organizations. On behalf of all German academic institutions (including universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutions, state and regional libraries), DEAL negotiates nationwide transformative "Publish and Read" agreements with the largest commercial publishers of academic journals under the auspices of the German Rectors' Conference.
The agreements enable thousands of research articles from German institutions to be published in open access every year, making them directly accessible and reusable worldwide free of charge. At the same time, they offer the hundreds of institutions in the DEAL consortium extensive access rights to scientific journals, thereby improving the information infrastructure for research and teaching in Germany.