[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Sat Mar 22 09:43:21 UTC 2014

This is a misinterpretation of the CC-BY licence of course. All the more surprising since OA advocate Iryna Kuchma is one of the authors. I'm cc-ing her.

I would like to see these licence statements replaced by a human- and machine-readable symbol and phrase like this: ⓐ 2014. Open Access. All redistribution and reuse is permitted provided the author(s) is (are) acknowledged. 
It may avoid these problems.

Jan Velterop

On 21 Mar 2014, at 16:46, Beall, Jeffrey <Jeffrey.Beall at ucdenver.edu> wrote:

> Puneet:
>  
> You will surely want to add Universitätsverlag Göttingen to your "wall of shame" for the contradictory use of a CC BY license found on the book they published entitled Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe.
>  
>  
> <image002.jpg>
>  
> If the image doesn't come through, it is from: here. It says:
>  
> "Birgit Schmidt and Iryna Kuchma
> Implementing Open Access Mandates in Europe
>  
> This work is licensed under the
> Creative Commons License CC-BY 3.0,
> allowing you to download, distribute and print the
> document in a few copies for private or educational
> use, given that the document stays unchanged
> and the creator is mentioned.
> You are not allowed to sell copies of the free version. [CC BY logo]"
>  
> --Jeffrey Beall
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