[okfn-discuss] Fw: [uo] FW: OPEN ACCESS: Open Letter from Fellows of the Royal Society regarding the Society's position statement on open access

Fri Jan 6 16:38:29 UTC 2006

Hi All,

Just to share a personal experience along these lines and hoping this
query is not off topic for the list..

I was recenlty asked if I would like to include an essay I wrote that
is released under a creative commons in an accademic journal published
by a commercial publisher. The require that the copyright is assigned
to them of at least the version that they publish.

I however wish to release the document under a creative commons
license so I am about to begin a negotiation about whether they will
publish it with this license. 

The danger is that the creative commons licensing rather than making
re-publication easier, might exclude the text from the journal!

Has anyone had a similar experience with CC content in accademic
journals?

chrs

~/julian

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:17:00AM -0800, Jo Walsh wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from "Atwood, Robert C" <r.atwood at imperial.ac.uk> -----
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> From: "Atwood, Robert C" <r.atwood at imperial.ac.uk>
> To: <uo at twenteenthcentury.com>
> Subject: [uo] FW: OPEN ACCESS: Open Letter from Fellows of the Royal Society regarding the Society's position statement on open access
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> Reply-To: uo at twenteenthcentury.com
> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:29:40 -0000
> 
>  May be of interest to UO niks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> http://www.frsopenletter.org/
> 
> 
> Lord Rees
> President
> Royal Society
> 6-9 Carlton Terrace
> London
> SW1Y 5AG
> 
> 7th December 2005
> 
> Dear Lord Rees
> 
> As Fellows of the Royal Society, we would like to express our
> disappointment with the Society's recent position statement1 on open
> access to published research. The society's statement, which takes a
> largely negative stance on open access, appears to be aimed at delaying
> implementation of the Research Councils UK's proposed policy2 on access
> to research outputs.