Recent News

2006-04-05 07:08 AM
SXSWi Open Science Podcast
The good folks at SXSWi have posted the podcast of the Open Science panel we hosted this year.

2006-03-31 03:55 AM
Signing The Berlin Declaration
Science Commons signed the Berlin Declaration this week. Here's why.

2006-03-30 01:29 AM
New Project Information
We've published new information on our Materials Transfer project and the Neurocommons project.

Welcome to Science Commons

Our goal is to encourage stakeholders to create areas of free access and inquiry using standardized licenses and other means; a 'Science Commons' built out of voluntary private agreements.

We work in three areas:

Project: Publishing
Scientific literature, publication and archiving

Project: Licensing
Streamlined and socially responsible licensing

Project: Data
Data and Databases

For more information, please see:

About Science Commons

Who We Are

Frequently Asked Questions

Resources and Participation