[open-bibliography] HathiTrust and "Open"

Sun Jul 31 19:27:35 UTC 2011

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> Here's HathiTrust's definition of "Open Access"
>
> "Open Access: This work is protected by copyright law. It is made available
> from HathiTrust with explicit permission of the copyright holder. Permission
> must be requested from the rights holder for any subsequent use."
>
> Yes, "sigh".
I have come across "Open" and "public domain" meaning that a human has  paid
a licence to see something and may not communicate it to other humans
wthout permission (which is unlikely to be given). That's why GRATIS and
LIBRE are essential terms and we should insist on them.

It took 10 years to get them used (rather that a confusing range of
colours). We have to be boringly persistent - I think our best chance is to
get "Open Bibliography" stickers posted in collections and publishers'
offerings.

BTW for various reasons we need to advertise the Principles of OBD. They are
not yet viral and we must make them so.I have been in the US and have sown
at least ones seed but we need more.

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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