[Open-access] MIT Press Journals

Wed Jun 3 09:00:50 UTC 2015

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Sander van der Waal <
sander.vanderwaal at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

Brilliant Idea. It would be a great opportunity for OAButton.

> Sander
>
> Sent on the move
> On Jun 3, 2015 9:29 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> The response I received from MIT Press Journals was as follows:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems a little against the spirit of the CC license and a rather odd
>> choice for an academic publisher to make.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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…
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Dimity.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Dimity Flanagan*
>>
>> Library Assistant, Research Support Services, LSE Research Online
>> <http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/>
>>
>> London School of Economics and Political Science
>>
>> 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
>>
>> tel: 020 7955 6311 | email: D.Flanagan at lse.ac.uk
>>
>>
>>
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