[okfn-discuss] "Open Access" publications under CC-NC licences

Thu Dec 8 00:07:06 UTC 2011

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On 12/08/2011 12:56 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> There has been considerable recent discussion about CC-NC licences 
> being used for "Open Access" papers by scholarly publishers. I have 
> written a few blog posts (
>
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/11/29/scientists-should-never-use-cc-nc-this-explains-why/ 
>
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/12/04/more-on-how-commercial-publishers-use-non-commercial-licensing-funders-are-you-really-getting-your-money%E2%80%99s-worth-many-are-not/ 
>
> , 
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/12/06/acceptance-of-cc-nc-has-sold-readers-and-authors-seriously-short/ 
>
> ) and responded to comments. I have summarised this in
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/12/07/%E2%80%9Copen-access%E2%80%9D-and-non-commercial-licences-summary/
>
> Ross Mounce has summarised this as:
> *this mess has caused irreparable damage to the re-usability of the 
> literature
> with which I completely agree. I think it's so serious that it should 
> not be discussed on my blog but brought here.
>
> It took me by surprise that authorPays "Open Access" seems to be 
> almost completely CC-NC. (The main open Access publishers such as 
> PLoSONE and BMC have complete OKD-compliance by using CC-BY). CC-NC 
> places so many restrictions on re-use that it is almost useless in 
> science.
>
> I believe that the OKFN should take this issue very seriously and with 
> great urgency. We know that multi-author organizations which start 
> using CC-NC find it impossible to chnage later without approaching 
> every author and with scholpub this is out of the question, so the 
> longer this goes on the worse the problem.
>
> I believe that OKFN should put together a group which draws together 
> resource material which makes the case against NC and then promotoes 
> this case to publishers and funders. Any aproaches to funders or 
> publishers could be done through IsItOpenData.
>
>
>
> *
> -- 
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
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>
>
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