Science Commons

The project sought to achieve for science what Creative Commons had achieved for the world of culture, art and educational material: to ease unnecessary legal and technical barriers to sharing, to promote innovation, and to provide easy, high quality tools that let individuals and organizations specify the terms under which they wished to share their material.

It integrated existing standard agreements and new Science Commons contracts into a Web-deployed suite, with the goal of developing a transaction system along the lines of Amazon or eBay by using the licensing as a discovery mechanism for materials.

The hope being that scientists would eventually be only one click away from accessing and/or ordering the materials referenced in the scholarly literature as they perform their research.

Science Commons’ Neurocommons project set out to create an Open Source knowledge management platform for biological research.

The Scholar's Copyright Addendum is still in use by SPARC The Science Commons Open Access Data Protocol was a method for ensuring that scientific databases can be legally integrated with one another.