[Open-access] Draft advocacy guide for libre open access?

[Jonathan Gray]

Thanks very much for your feedback Peter.

I'm not yet sure whether or not I'll be able to make it to Berlin 11 (is
anyone else on the list going?) - but by next week I mean open access week,
which is 21-27th October:

http://www.openaccessweek.org/

Re: OA libre - while Peter Suber has suggested using the term in the way
you mention (removal of 'some' reuse barriers), I wonder whether we could
start pushing for a stronger meaning of this term which is compliant with
the Open Definition and BOAI10, which is closer to its usual meaning in
relation to software and content?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge


On 16 October 2013 13:24, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Ahead of open access week next week, Michelle and I thought it would be
>> useful to have a brief guide to 'libre' open access, distilling what this
>> is, why it matters and how to advocate for it:
>>
>>
> Brilliant idea (by "next week" you mean berlin 11?) . Are you going? Will
> you be promoting this document there?
>
>
>> We've started a brief draft here: http://bit.ly/libre-oa
>>
>> Might anyone be interested in helping with this? If so, it would be great
>> if you could comment on the doc!
>>
>
> I feel passionately so I supposed I am required to comment :)
>
> We need to make it clear that:
>  * OKF-libre OA is critically important. An example is the EuPMC Open
> subset whcih can be used for TDM (Text and Data mining - I call it
> content-mining). We should always stress it's more than just text. We don't
> even know how large the OA subset is because we don't know which docs are OA
> * Anything less than OKF-libre (e.g. CC-NC, CC-ND, unlicensed) CANNOT be
> used automatically. This reduces its value to near zero as the author has
> to be contacted every document.
> * Many organizations think CC-NC is a "good things" because it feels
> right. This include university repositories. CC-NC policies do great harm
> and almost no good
> * many publishers do not understand the formal basis of OA and mislabel
> their documents (e.g. "Creative Commons Attribution Licence which can be
> used for Non-Commercial puposes" (from SAGE). We must insist that all
> documents are explicitly labelled with formal licences. Stamps of "Open
> Access paper " are virtually useless"
> * the terminology of OA is fuzzy and NOT deducible from other Open
> initiatives (e.g. FLOSS). OA-libre is not a useful term in practice
> ("removal of 'some' permission barriers" is not operable and defaults to
> CC-NC-ND at best.
> * All this matters. In particular it is almost impossible to make any
> aggregated or indexed derivative works from the scientific literature.
> * without formal legal licences readers making assumptions run the risk or
> breaking copyright or contract law. The licences protect readers from being
> taken to court.
>
>
> P.
>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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