From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:10:11 -0500

RUP's policies make perfectly good sense for the journals it
publishes. And Mike makes a good case for the type of CC license RUP
uses. I have real qualms about the use of the CC-BY license myself.

Whether six months would suffice for journals in the humanities is
another question. We need more experimentation to determine what
effect that short an embargo might have on subscriptions to journals
in that sector.  Editors of British history journals who have spoken
out do not think it is a long enough time.

Sandy Thatcher


At 9:48 AM -0700 3/11/13, Heather Morrison wrote:

> Thanks to Mike Rossner for this editorial explaining how RUP's practices are designed to provide free access to all content after 6 months, meet the UK and US open access policy requirements, while sustaining subscription revenue through the use of the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Sharealike license (CC-BY-NC-SA). While questioning the need for specific permission for data and text mining, RUP provides language clarifying that this is indeed permitted to avoid confusion.
>
> The RUP approach meets the criteria for the PubMedCentral "Open Access subset" after the 6-month embargo. RUP is Sherpa RomEO "blue", permitting author self-archiving of post-prints but not preprints.
>
> Rossner presents some useful analysis to the discussion about licensing practices for open access journals. The editorial can be found here:
> http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2013/03/05/jcb.201303016.full
>
>
> best,
>
> Heather Morrison, PhD