[open-science] SPARC author addendum uses CC-NC licence and now all hybrid publishers have followed

[Heather Morrison]

On 2011-12-12, at 4:09 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote:

Do we agree that publishers cannot profit directly by having NC and do it only out of the sense of injustice Marcus outlines?

Comments:

Good question, Carl. Most scholarly journals today still rely primarily on subscriptions revenue - and all hybrid journals are by definition subscriptions journals. Giving away your journal for commercial purposes means that someone else can sell subscriptions to your journal, quite possibly at a lower price. 

best,

Heather Morrison, MLIS
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Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication
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