At least some articles with Microsoft Research affiliated authors are covered under a CC-BY licence, so could be called true open access (BOAI-compliant OA). Example: http://www.plosone.org/article/authors/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0072200
Jan Velterop On 21 Jan 2014, at 13:37, Jacinto Dávila <jacinto.dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ > > Microsoft Research (20 Jan 2014) > > INSTITUTION or FUNDER URL: http://research.microsoft.com > MANDATE URL and TEXT > > Microsoft Research Open Access Policy > 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 > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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