ResearchGate Creative Common Licenses(CC)

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ResearchGate is a platform for academician. In context of, license terminology the creative common license(CC) has some variants. It has mainly four types at ResearchGate platform. The CC BY(Attribution), CC-BY-NC(Non commercial), CC BY-ND(Non derivatives), CC BY-SA(Share Alike). The CC BY(Attribution) is the licensing term that allows others to use anyone’s work, remix the study, as well as he/she can employ it for commercial purpose. However, the author credit must be mentioned under this license term. In the context of, CC BY-NC(Non commercial) the others reader can change or utilize the existing uploaded study, but it is not permissible to operate it as a commercial intention. Considering the CC BY-ND(Non derivatives) the reader can download or share that resource, but it has restriction to do any change, transform or translation without taking the permission of author. At last CC BY-SA(Share Alike) refers that if anyone do the change or modification of existing uploaded contents then make a new study, he/she must publish it under the license of Common creative(CC) scheme. Happy Learning……………………sincerely — — — — — — RKD