To state the obvious: Nature is offering researchers the choice to make their own decision about a range of CC licenses. This is not a unilateral decision! On the contrary, it is publishers who offer only one choice (such as CC-BY) that are making a unilateral decision.
As an open access advocate, I commend NPG for this decision. I recommend that publishers give authors the full range of CC licenses to choose from. This is the only CC license option consistent with an author's rights approach to scholarly communication. Cellular Therapy and Transplantation provides what I consider the optimal creative commons model for open access journals: "CTT practices what I consider to be the optimal policy for an open access journal for CC licensing, requiring authors to use a CC license, but leaving copyright with the authors and allowing the author to select the CC license of their choice from among the full set of CC license options". From my blogpost, journals with good creative commons models: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2011/12/journals-with-good-creative-commons.html Further down in this blogpost I commend the Nature Scientific Reports options. For further details and explanation of why I consider author choice to be optimal, see the blogpost. best, Heather Morrison, PhD The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com On 5-Feb-13, at 12:37 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > I would be interested in who took the decision to offer a range or > licences and whether this has had any consultation outside NPG. > From my viewpoint I see it as a publisher taking unilateral > decisions about the dissemination of knowledge without community > involvement. NPG will (naturally) do what is best for NPG first and > the community second. Has NPG followed any guidelines from > independent bodies? > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
