[Open-access] MIT Press Journals

Sander van der Waal sander.vanderwaal at okfn.org
Wed Jun 3 08:55:51 UTC 2015


What about setting up a community portal where one can find the liberated
CC-licenced articles that are being sold by the rightsholder?
Is there an existing repository that people would recommend for this?
Maybe the Open Access button folks have/know something?

Sander

Sent on the move
On Jun 3, 2015 9:29 AM, "Flanagan,D" <D.Flanagan at lse.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hi all,
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> I emailed MIT Press about an article that had a CC license but appeared to
> be behind a paywall.
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> The response I received from MIT Press Journals was as follows:
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> Creative Commons licenses work in tandem with copyright rather than as a
> substitute for it. On behalf of MIT, the MIT Press is the copyright holder
> of the articles found in IJLM and because of this we reserve the right to
> sell the articles.  However, the articles are sold with a CC BY-NC-ND
> license attached, which allows the user to share the work with others
> provided that they fully credit the IJLM article.  With this license users
> cannot change the article in any way or use it commercially.
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> It seems a little against the spirit of the CC license and a rather odd
> choice for an academic publisher to make.
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> I was trying to get this article to put in our institutional repository on
> behalf of an academic. It will be interesting to hear what she has to say
> about this…
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> Kind regards,
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> Dimity.
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> *Dimity Flanagan*
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> Library Assistant, Research Support Services, LSE Research Online
> <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/>
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> London School of Economics and Political Science
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> 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
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> tel: 020 7955 6311 | email: D.Flanagan at lse.ac.uk
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