(making up the knowledgebase) and open source software (in the form of an analytic platform). The software was still under development when the project ended. Scholar's Copyright Project The Scholar’s Copyright was developed with Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition designed to lower the barriers to Open Access (OA) by reducing transaction costs and eliminating contract proliferation by offering tools and resources catering to both methods of achieving Open Access. The Scholar's Copyright Addendum is still in use by SPARC Open Access Data Protocol The Science Commons Open Access Data Protocol was a method for ensuring that scientific databases can be legally integrated with one another. The protocol was not a license or legal tool, but instead a methodology and best practices document for creating such legal tools in the future, and marking data in the public domain for machine-assisted discovery. References External links Creative Commons (Former official site) MIT Libraries Podcast with Creative Commons VP for Science John Wilbanks Popular Science interview with Creative Commons VP for Science John Wilbanks Copyright law organizations Creative Commons Scientific organizations based in the United States Scientific organizations established in 2005 Organizations disestablished in 2009 Open science Scholarly communication