Researchhub: GitHub for Science

Yes. The scientific record is too important to be hidden behind paywalls. Science should be open, not only for reading, but also for reusing.

That's why user contributions to ResearchHub are shared under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). This license allows anyone to reuse the content for any purpose, as long as attribution is provided. We consider a hyperlink or URL back to the source page on ResearchHub sufficient attribution.

The CC BY license is the gold standard of open licenses for scholarly content. It is used by publishers such as PLOS, eLife, Distill, and BMC. By choosing CC BY, ResearchHub ensures user content can be reused to further science, by way of text mining, sharing, translation, and many other forms of reuse. This sets ResearchHub apart from other places to discuss science, like ResearchGate or Reddit, which do not apply an open license to all user-contributed content.

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