The use of the term ?libre? was mine, not RCUK?s, Peter. If you want to decide whether their definition counts as libre, this is what the document says:
?The Research Councils define Open Access to mean unrestricted, on-line access to peer reviewed and published scholarly research papers. Specifically a user must be able to do the following free of any publisher-imposed access charge: - Read published papers in an electronic format. - Search for and re-use the content of published papers both manually and using automated tools (such as those for text and data mining) provided that any such reuse is subject to proper attribution. What would be different? The existing policy will be clarified by specifically stating that Open Access includes unrestricted use of manual and automated text and data mining tools. Also, that it allows unrestricted re-use of content with proper attribution ? as defined by the Creative Commons CC-BY licence. The Research Councils acknowledge that some publications may need to amend their copyright conditions if they are to meet this definition of Open Access. ? Alma Swan On 13/03/2012 11:10, "Peter Murray-Rust" <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Richard Poynder <ricky at > richardpoynder.co.uk> > wrote: >> ? >> >> The UK's Research Councils have proposed a revised policy on Open Access >> which further clarifies RCUK's definition of OA and strengthens some of the >> criteria that must be satisfied. In particular, the policy commits to libre >> Open Access as the agreed RCUK definition, ... > > Please can you clarify what is the RCUK's definition of "OA" and "libre".? I > hope that libre means "consistent with BOAI/BBB" or else it is operationally > useless for anything other than human eyeballs. (See Wiley's definition of > "fully open access" - I review this in > http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/04/wiley%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfully-open-a > ccess%E2%80%9D-chemistry-open-my-review-if-this-is-%E2%80%9Cgold-oa%E2%80%9D-i > -don%E2%80%99t-want-it/ )? For example do the members of this list really > believe that this is "libre"? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120313/a7bbff05/attachment-0001.html
