From the Springer website (http://www.springeropen.com/about):
SpringerOpen supports several international archives and digital repositories, and encourages self-archiving by authors All research articles published in a SpringerOpen journal are archived without delay in several international archives. SpringerOpen also allows authors to immediately deposit the official, final version of their published article in any suitable digital repository. Several institutions and research funders have introduced official policies requesting or requiring their authors to deposit the articles they publish in a central archive. SpringerOpen fully supports these deposition policies and is compliant with them. Not least of these, of course, is PMC and UKPMC (now renamed European PubMed Central) where the vast majority of Springer articles are (non-exclusively) deposited. To stop these papers from being OA PMC, European PMC, and every institutional repository worldwide would need to be shut down or the international copyright agreements underpinning CC licenses completely rewritten. I completely agree that robust digital preservation plans are essential. But the original question was what are the implications for OA of the Springer sale and my answer is still that for the OA papers already published - none. Further, I think this who point is moot. What little I do know about Springer's business suggests that the OA part of it is growing and profitable. I haven't seen a plausible scenario whereby any new owner would want to cut off the company's engine of growth either with a futile attempt to retroactively take published papers out of OA (a move that would cause extreme repetitional damage even if it worked, which it wouldn't) or discontinue current OA business. David On 11 Oct 2012, at 02:32, Heather Morrison wrote: > On 10-Oct-12, at 2:58 PM, David Prosser wrote: > > ...The simple fact is that the Springer OA articles published to date > will remain OA whoever purchases the company > > Comment: > > This sounds very reassuring. However, I argue that this is not a > simple fact at all. Please explain how this work and how you know this > work. For example, are you privy to inside knowledge about Springer > contracts? Are your Research Libraries copying the Springer OA content > and planning making this available? If the latter, are these concrete > plans with funding attached or tentative? > > If Springer went out of business altogether, that would constitute a > trigger event for CLOCKSS, but not if the business is transferred. > > At the very least, can we agree that something other than using a > particular CC license needs to happen to make works open access for > the long term, such as a library or archive storing, preserving, and > making the works OA? > > best, > > Heather Morrison > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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