From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:20:32 -0500
There may be an "orphan" problem with OA articles whose authors retain
commercial rights and who become difficult to locate later on. (Also,
if they are deceased, their heirs will have inherited such rights and
they may well be unaware that they even own such rights.) Indeed, the
problem will likely be greater than for traditional publishing, where
such rights are typically owned by the publisher, which (unless it
goes out of business) is easy to locate.
Sandy Thatcher
> From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:34:53 +0000
>
> Though the nice thing about OA articles is that they can reside in
> many places at once, and so the chances of those articles getting lost
> are much lower than if and when a traditional journal or publisher
> disappears. Some traditional publishers have made 'living wills', but
> not all. And if they haven't, there may be a ©-orphan problem when
> they go under. No such problem with OA articles.
>
> The fear of 'predatory' OA journals is a bit of a red herring. There
> are also 'predatory' traditional journals. The difference is the prey.
> For author-side paid OA journals it's the author; for subscription
> journals it's the library AND the author (who may find that his/her
> paper has a circulation of only a few hundred, or even less).
>
> So for authors it always is 'caveat emptor', whether publishing in an
> OA journal or a subscription journal.
>
> Jan Velterop
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> On 13 Mar 2012, at 08:06, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:41:17 -0500
>
> Yes, at the journal level the poor quality journals will die. The
> tragedy will be the quality articles that go down with the poor
> journals, and are lost. But that's been said before.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
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