[open-science] text-mining licence exemplar

Wed Jun 6 14:35:07 UTC 2012

Many thanks. Much appreciated

A
> Anthony, apologies, I lost track of the fact that you said T&F
> specifically
> won't go for a CC license.
>
> Then I'd suggest, off the cuff: anyone may analyze the content in any way
> for any purpose, and redistribute excerpts and facts that result from such
> analysis.
>
> The principles here may also be of help?
> http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/01/the-right-to-read-is-the-right-to-mine/
>
> Sincerely,
> Heather
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Rockefellar University Press also has a propriety period and then opens
>> up
>> the content.
>>
>> RUP goes further than free/gratis: it makes the content available under
>> a
>> CC-BY-SA-NC license.
>> Details<http://www.rupress.org/site/subscriptions/terms.xhtml>
>> .
>>
>> Agreed that this approach is more valuable for text-mining than a 6
>> month
>> window of availability. I'd recommend this model... with CC-BY instead
>> of
>> CC-BY-SA-NC :)
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Heather
>>
>> --
>> Heather Piwowar
>>
>> DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad
>>   studying research data sharing and reuse
>>   remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> >> Can you shame them at least into doing the opposite? NON-open for
>>> six
>>> >> months, then release under CC BY after that embargo elapses?
>>> >>
>>> >> -- Mike.
>>>
>>> For text-mining purposes this would make more sense - it's a good
>>> proposal. Some journals currently operate like this e.g. The
>>> Biological Bulletin http://www.biolbull.org/site/misc/about.xhtml
>>>
>>> which is free (gratis) to access after 1 year.
>>>
>>> Initial free (gratis) access, reverting to subscription access after a
>>> given time, to me sounds like a purely promotional activity with no
>>> real helpful research purpose, especially WRT text-mining.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ross
>>>
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