During the uploading process, the EUR Data Repository will prompt you to select a license for your data. A license allows you to specify how others may reuse your data.
There are many different licenses available but the most commonly used are the Creative Commons licenses. The table below lists the Creative Commons licenses available in the EUR Data Repository and explains what others are and are not allowed to do with your data under each license. You can choose a different licence if that is more suitable with the research output you want to share. A comprehensive list of licences can be found here.
If, for any reason, you are not able to add a license to your work, please choose the option ‘In Copyright’ when uploading.
The most liberal of the CC licences apart from CC0 Public Domain Dedication. This licence allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon a work – also commercially – provided they credit the author for the original creation and clearly indicate that changes were made to the work, if any.
This licence allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, provided it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author. ND ('no-derivatives') means that others may not modify your work. This could prevent larger portions from being included in course packs.
With this licence others must not remix, tweak, or build upon the original work for commercial purposes. Although new works must also acknowledge the author and be non-commercial, reusers do not have to licence their derivative works on the same terms. NC ('non-commercial') means that the work may only be used for non-commercial purposes. Please note that this may mean that those within the university cannot re-use your work for teaching.
This is the most restrictive of the six licences, only allowing others to download works and share them with others as long as they credit the author, but they cannot change them in any way or use them commercially.