My statement and Peter Suber's statement do not conflict. He said 'of all OA journals' Whilst I said 'of OA journals using creative commons licences'
Both statements are thus correct On Jan 29, 2013 10:09 PM, "Heather Morrison" <heath...@eln.bc.ca> wrote: > On 2013-01-29, at 11:01 AM, Ross Mounce wrote: > > ...and as I've told you elsewhere, where open access journals use Creative > Commons licences CC BY is by far the most common choice (whether you count > that by publisher, journal OR article volume) > > Comment > > >From Peter Suber's SPARC Open Access Newsletter - as of May 2012: "for > present purposes we can say that roughly 88% of OA journals don't use > CC-BY". For details and data, see the June 2012 SPARC Open Access > Newsletter: > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-12.htm > > Do you have any data to support your assertion that the majority of OA > publishers use CC-BY? This strikes me as counter to logic. If less than 12% > of OA journals use CC-BY and some of the larger OA publishers (with a > number of journals each) use CC-BY, this suggests that the majority of OA > publishers do not use CC-BY. Remember that PLoS + BMC / Springer + Hindawi > = 3 publishers. > > If you have any actual data on article volume that would be helpful. In > interpreting this data, it is important to take into account the total > volume. When PLoS ONE became the world's largest journal a couple of years > ago, publishing 14,000 articles in one year, that was remarkable, a real > milestone for OA. But let's not forget that that 14,000 articles is still > less than 1% of the approximately 1.5 million scholarly articles published > in a year. > > For the future: now that PLoS ONE has a number of competitors, it will be > interesting to see whether this pioneer retains this volume. If other > publishers offer authors a choice of CC licenses, and not all authors > prefer CC-BY, this could give PLoS ONE competitors a bit of an edge. > > best, > > Heather Morrison, PhD > The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >
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