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Understanding how others can use your work and making decisions on the licence you want to apply to your published research is crucial for any author. The open access movement advocates for liberal reuse and distribution of content but how does this fit with individual researchers’ attitudes and opinions on licences? Do their preferences vary by gender, age, career stage or discipline? The 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey surveyed authors on their licence preferences as part of wider research on open access. Analysis released today further breaks down these initial findings by region, country, discipline, gender, age, and career stage. The results revealed: -       33% chose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) as their most preferred licence -       25% chose Exclusive Licence to Publish, an increase of 3% on the 2013 survey results -       24% chose Copyright Assignment -       Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) was the least preferre