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

Wed Oct 16 11:37:20 UTC 2013

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:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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