[Open-access] MIT Press Journals

[Peter Murray-Rust]

It is appalling.

I think the right response is to copy every single article and post it
publicly and invite others to copy it. I see no reason why It cannot be put
in any or all Institutional repositories.

In toto.


On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Flanagan,D <D.Flanagan at lse.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
>
>
> I emailed MIT Press about an article that had a CC license but appeared to
> be behind a paywall.
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>
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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*
>
> Library Assistant, Research Support Services, LSE Research Online
> <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/>
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-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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