Sorry If i sound over skeptic (believe me, I have reasons), but shouldn't we know the text of that licence (or licences) before we actually call this Open Access?
On 20 January 2014 17:42, Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://roarmap.eprints.org/998/ <http://t.co/rNfKxz3N4L> > > Microsoft Research (20 Jan 2014) > INSTITUTION or FUNDER URL: http://research.microsoft.com > MANDATE URL and TEXT > > *Microsoft Research Open Access Policy > <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/help/openaccess.aspx>* > > Microsoft Research is committed to disseminating the fruits of its > research and scholarship as widely as possible because we recognize the > benefits that accrue to scholarly enterprises from such wide dissemination, > including more thorough review, consideration and critique, and general > increase in scientific, scholarly and critical knowledge. > > To advance this commitment, Microsoft Research has adopted the following > policy: > > *RETENTION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS* > > In connection with our open-access goals, for Microsoft Research-authored > scholarly publications (“Works”) submitted to third-party conferences and > publishing houses (“Publishers”) for publication, Microsoft Research > retains a license to make our Works available to the research community in > our online Microsoft Research open-access repository. > > *AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO PUBLISHER AGREEMENTS* > > Microsoft researchers are authorized to enter into standard publication > agreements with Publishers on behalf of Microsoft in order to assign or > license the copyrights in their Works (but no other rights) to Publishers > for publication purposes subject to the rights retained by Microsoft as per > the previous paragraph. This applies to all scholarly articles authored or > co-authored by a researcher while employed by Microsoft. > > *DEPOSIT* > > To assist in disseminating and archiving its scholarly work, Microsoft > researchers commit to helping Microsoft Research obtain copies of their > articles by providing an electronic copy of each article for inclusion in a > Microsoft Research open-access repository. Microsoft Research will endeavor > to make every Microsoft Research-authored article available to the public > in an open-access repository, though in rare cases, certain > publisher-imposed conditions may not allow such availability. > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- Jacinto Dávila http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/ingenieria/jacinto
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