On 9 December 2013 00:20, Heather Morrison <heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>wrote:
> Alicia, > > According to your statement below, with CC-BY the only restriction placed > by Elsevier is for attribution. However, the Elsevier open access license > policy clearly states that Elsevier demands an exclusive license to publish > with open access works (including CC-BY). Can you explain this discrepancy? > I don't believe this is a discrepancy. What it is saying that the definitive record is published by Elsevier, and the author provides an exclusive licence in order to do so. Re-publishing, or re-distributing via any other venue constitutes a derivative work, which is permissible and does not conflict with the exclusive licence (which is only on the definitive record, not the derivative) - providing the proper attribution is in place. Without the exclusive licence to the definitive record, then as the author retains copyright, then in theory the author could authorize publishing of a version of the definitive record without attribution to the Elsevier version. It's a question of preserving the version of record. The difference between the author providing a licence to Elsevier to distribute an article under CC-BY, and the author providing a CC-BY licence to Elsevier. Comment: Based on this wording it is clear that Elsevier is requiring an > exclusive publishing license. This is not compatible with your explanation > below that nothing is required beyond attribution as required by the CC-BY > license. > It is consistent - the article can be re-published elsewhere, providing it is accordance with the CC-BY licence, including attribution to the definitive record as published by Elsevier. G
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