Nature Publishing Group to license genomes under Creative Commons
OA Librarian points out a press release from Dec 5 2007 a news release from Nature Publishing Group announcing that genome sequences: "Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced today that is introducing a Creative Commons licence for original research articles publishing the primary sequence of an organism’s genome for the first time in any of the Nature journals." Of particular interest: "Wherever possible, NPG will apply the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike licence retrospectively [emphasis added] to original research articles reporting novel primary genome-wide sequences that have previously been published in Nature journals." Nature Editorial: Shared Genomes (Nature 450, 762 6 December 2007) It is good to see Nature trying to fill some of the leadership void in this area. Taxonomy, with a longer history in publishing, needs a similar effort, as pointed-out by Donat Agosti on the Taxacom mailing list (in reference to the NPG announcem...