[Open-access] Rounded Globe: scholarly essays with a CC license

simon cook simonjohncook at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 08:17:38 UTC 2015


wow!

a strongly worded email, but much appreciated. my writing has been sloppy
and i will amend as appropriate. any confusion was unintentional.

Thanks.

Simon



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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <
peter.murray.rust at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I have no immediate comments on the value or otherwise of this project,
> but note two areas of confusion - whether deliberate or not
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:09 AM, simon cook <simonjohncook at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> A few months back I wrote asking for help and advice on a new Creative
>> Commons electronic publishing project. That project is now online:
>> http://roundedglobe.com/books.
>>
>
> A "new Creative Commons electronic publishing project." has the very
> strong implication that this is a project OF Creative Commons. There is
> nothing on your website to back this up and as an Advisor on CC I have
> heard nothing of it. It seems more likely that this is YOUR project and it
> uses CC licences. You are in danger of violating trademark rights by this
> phrase.
>
> Secondly I argue strongly against the use of "published under a CC
> licence" (this is common with many publishers.  CC licences cover many
> licences including effectively "all rights reserved". In many cases the
> phrase is used to suggest that the publisher is aligned with Open Access
> principles such as BOAI. It is not clear what your CC licence/s are, but
> from reading the text there seems to be at least CC-BY-NC-ND, which many
> people conside a fairly restrictive licence. I am not saying you should or
> shouldn't use that licence but you SHOULD identify it on the landing page
> and remove any implication that CC supports this project (if it doesn't)
>
> These are very early days. At present we have only one book published. We
>> are looking to release one book per month (but need more contributions).
>> Our crowd-funding is at present minimal. And our FAQ is only a rough draft.
>> Still...
>>
>>
>> P.
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
>
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