From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:50:47 +0100
Sandy,
First of all, this thread is called "Predatory OA Journals" and it is
in the context of OA journals, not monographs, that I made my
comments.
Secondly, not just for journal articles, but also for monographs, the
term OA justifiably raises the expectation that the work is indeed
Open Access as it was originally defined (the Budapest OA Initiative)
and if that is not the case, then labelling a work OA may well be seen
as misleading by the reader.
That doesn't and shouldn't mean that steps to make monographs freely
accessible are useless. But unless they are open access in the sense
intended in the Budapest OA Initiative, which includes reuse, even
commercial, and which is best captured in the CC-BY licence, they
should be abundantly clear about what rights a reader has, lest their
'OA' label is read and interpreted as BOAI-compliant OA.
Jan Velterop
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On 19 Mar 2012, at 02:47, LIBLICENSE wrote:
From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:19:35 -0500
But, as I've said here before, if you take that approach and rule out
anything that is not strictly compliant with the BOAI definition, then
you are right away divorcing the OA movement from practically every OA
monograph publishing program that currently exists. Is that a price
you really want to pay for OA purism? Think about the wider
consequences of what you are recommending here....
Sandy Thatcher
From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:25:44 +0000
Well, if the author retains commercial rights, the 'open access' in
question is not BOAI-compliant, and it is about time to stop calling
anything Open Access that is not covered by CC-BY, CC-zero, or
equivalent. Open Access is well-defined in the Budapest Open Access
Initiative and stretching the notion to include all manner of
pseudo-OA causes the problems and anxieties Sandy Thatcher points to.
Jan Velterop
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
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