From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:43:35 +0000 Based on a quick read, what strikes me first about these criteria is the fact that DOAJ is willing to classify as Open Access (and grant its seal of approval to) a journal that publishes under the equivalent of a CC-ND license (see criterion #42). It has always seemed to me that OA should be more about giving people access to content than about making authors give up their right to have meaningful control over their original work, so I think this position is fundamentally healthy and wise. But I have to say that I'm surprised to see DOAJ taking this position, since it rather flies in the face of what I think I hear most OA advocates saying -- which is that OA isn't really OA unless it's published under the equivalent of CC-BY. But it's possible that I'm missing something fundamental here, and I'd be interested to know what others think. --- Rick Anderson Interim Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah [log in to unmask]