From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:56:13 -0800 As a long-time open access advocate, my position is that the strongest CC license for open access is CC-BY-NC-SA, as this protects open access downstream. I share with my open access colleagues a concern for the emerging pseudo open access options offered by commercial publishers, and will be watching for details of the Taylor & Francis Open with a critical eye. However, I advocate for inclusiveness in defining open. The CC-BY universe is a very great deal smaller than the OA universe. As Suber & Sutton reported in the December 2011 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, only 15% of the society publishers listed in the DOAJ use any CC license at all; and of those that do, some use noncommercial, sharealike, and noderivatives. This is less than the 24% of all journals listed in the DOAJ Shieber found to use CC licenses in 2009. And this is the gold road - full open access publishers. Outside of the gold road, the use of CC licenses, and particularly CC-BY, is not common at all. There are no funder or institutional open access mandates requiring any kind of CC licensing, never mind CC-BY, to the best of my knowledge. As one example of the confusion that can arise with CC licensing, consider that it is not always clear whether the CC license is that of the author, or of the journal. Some of my relevant posts on this topic: Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for scholarly publishers http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/dissension-in-open-access-ranks-on-cc.html Sage "choice": a critique http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/11/sage-choice-critique.html Creative Commons and Noncommercial: CC Version 4.0 discussion http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/creative-commons-and-noncommercial-cc.html best, Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com