Preprint licensing survey

The ASAPbio preprint licensing task force invited all preprint authors to take an anonymous 5-minute survey about licensing choices between February 15 and March 5, 2018. Results, ppt files, and more analysis can be found in the Github repository under a CC0 license.

Survey results on author attitudes toward preprint licensing. Includes demographics on position, location, preprint server usage, time since last preprint, and discipline. Visualized with pie charts, bar charts, and a world map.

$Chart showing attitudes toward preprint reuse by license choice, with various permissions on the left. Lines representing CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND, and All Rights Reserved indicate fraction of affirmative responses, with trends rising on the right.$

A diagram titled Other comments with four categories: Lack of understanding, Tradeoffs, Policies, and Credit. Each category contains speech bubbles with opinions on preprint licensing, featuring concerns and observations in a professional setting.

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