From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:38:40 +0100 In a Q&A interview, executive director of Rockefeller University Press Mike Rossner explains why he disagrees with the decision by Research Councils UK and The Wellcome Trust to insist that any Gold OA articles they fund should be made available under a CC-BY licence. Some extracts: “RCUK and Wellcome are fragmenting the licensing of their own content by requiring CC-BY when they pay immediate access fees. If the publisher does not offer an immediate access option but releases the content at six months, Wellcome Trust leaves publishers’ licensing terms in place, and those terms could be as far to the other side of the openness spectrum as the publisher holding copyright with all rights reserved. RCUK requires content released at six months to be made available ‘without restriction on non-commercial re-use,’ effectively CC-BY-NC. “In my opinion, the middle-ground of CC-BY-NC should be mandated for all content. This licence could be used by any publisher regardless of business model, and, I believe, it still achieves the funding agencies’ goal of reuse of content for text and data mining.” … “RUP has no current plans to become an OA publisher, although we remain open to the possibility if we could be assured of appropriate support from funding agencies to cover our expenses as a selective journal. For the time being, I believe that the subscription-based business model for selective journals can and should coexist with the OA business model." … “I believe that APCs for immediate access to a subset of content in an otherwise subscription-based journal [Hybrid OA] can unfairly distribute the costs of publication. As a publisher of “selective” journals, our cost per article is higher than the current standards for APCs for immediate access, even the $5,000 fee that is now charged by some journals.” … “I specified a cost per article of ~$10,000 three years ago. I have not redone the calculation since then.” … “I do support licensing terms that provide reuse rights. I just don’t think it is necessary to invoke a licence that is potentially detrimental to subscription-based publishers to do so.” More here: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/rockefeller-university-press-cc-by-is.html Richard Poynder