From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:43:35 +0000

Based on a quick read, what strikes me first about these criteria is the
fact that DOAJ is willing to classify as Open Access (and grant its seal
of approval to) a journal that publishes under the equivalent of a CC-ND
license (see criterion #42).

It has always seemed to me that OA should be more about giving people
access to content than about making authors give up their right to have
meaningful control over their original work, so I think this position is
fundamentally healthy and wise. But I have to say that I'm surprised to
see DOAJ taking this position, since it rather flies in the face of what I
think I hear most OA advocates saying -- which is that OA isn't really OA
unless it's published under the equivalent of CC-BY.

But it's possible that I'm missing something fundamental here, and I'd be
interested to know what others think.

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Rick Anderson
Interim Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
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