JCOM moves to CC BY 4.0 International license
Starting in January 2026, articles published in JCOM will be released under the CC BY 4.0 International license. This replaces the previously adopted CC BY-NC-ND license.
This change reinforces JCOM’s commitment to Open Science best practices and compliance with major funders’ requirements, improving the discoverability, reuse, and impact of published research, while ensuring mandatory attribution and full copyright retention by authors.
What Creative Commons licenses are
Creative Commons (CC) licenses are standardized legal tools that allow authors to clearly specify how their works may be used, shared, and adapted. In scientific publishing, CC licenses play a key role in promoting knowledge dissemination, research reuse, and transparency. The CC BY 4.0 license is the most permissive commonly used in academia. For this reason, CC BY has become the standard license required by many Open Access policies and major research funders.