[Open-access] Crowdsourcing request + BMJ OA Policy

Sat Mar 22 10:23:32 UTC 2014

Here is another example of this kind of problem in "Handbook of Social 
Media for Researchers and Super-visors" by Shailey Minocha and Marian 
Petre, published by the Open University and funded by Vitae:

http://oro.open.ac.uk/34271/1/Vitae-Innovate-Open-University-Social-Media-Handbook-2012.pdf

 From page 4 onwards it has this weird formulation in the footer:

"Material from this document may be freely reproduced, in any medium, by 
UK higher education institutions only, strictly for their own 
non-commercial training and development purposes, subject to 
acknowledgement of copyright. Materials may be adapted
for your own non-commercial use provided that the original source
and copyright is acknowledged. If material is required for use
outside the UK higher education sector, and/or for commercial use, 
please contact The Open University (OU) at +44(0)8453006090 Released 
under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 
Unported licence by the OU."

The problem is compounded by the fact the handbook is aimed specifically 
at early career researchers whose understanding of CC won't be helped if 
they read these terms.

Seb Schmoller

On 22/03/2014 10:06, Michelle Brook wrote:
> Even with comment/outrage from the community, it would still be useful
> for Creative Commons to make a statement in some of these cases along
> the lines of:
>
> "This appears to be a misunderstanding of the license".
>
> Even just as a tweet it would be valuable - after all they are the
> experts. People on this mailing list and others can then have something
> to use to push harder against publishers.
>
> I think it would mean a lot in a world where lots of academics still
> don't know much about licensing.
>
> M
>
> On 22 Mar 2014, at 10:00, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk
> <mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>> This licence is completely unacceptable and actually does great harm
>> as it could be taken as a template.
>>
>> There are at least the issues:
>> * they shouldn't be trying to restrict re-use anyway. This is a moral
>> ethical question
>> * they shouldn't be trying to write their own conditions
>>
>> The last is very common and almost always a total foulup. CC licences
>> have years of work and are precise instruments.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com
>> <mailto:velterop at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     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 <mailto: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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