Hi Heather Sorry, I can’t follow you on that:
> Increase in monopoly power for Elsevier: anyone can use the CC licensed > material to create a competitor to Scopus, however only Elsevier can use > their copyrighted work. CC-BY reduces the likelihood of successful > competition. The problem here is obviously not the CC-BY content, but the the non-open content of Elsevier. So forcing Elsevier also to use CC-BY for their „own“ content would enable competition for analysis tools like Scopus. Best regards Christian > Am 08.07.2019 um 15:39 schrieb Heather Morrison <heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>: > > In related news: Elsevier's toll access service Scopus now includes 5,393 > open access journals. This is helpful to illustrate and analyze some of the > implications of blanket downstream commercial re-use (e.g. CC-BY): > > Extra profit for Elsevier: no need to pay CC-BY journals, and open licensing > reduces their costs for clarifying permissions. > > Increase in monopoly power for Elsevier: anyone can use the CC licensed > material to create a competitor to Scopus, however only Elsevier can use > their copyrighted work. CC-BY reduces the likelihood of successful > competition. > > Development of underdevelopment: authors from poor countries get the benefit > of increased exposure with OA, but are locked out of the next generation of > services built on this such as Scopus. CC-BY is not sufficient to achieve the > vision of sharing the knowledge of the rich with the poor and the poor with > the rich; this license facilitates one-way sharing of the poor with the rich, > as it lacks a means of ensuring reciprocity. (CC-BY-SA does not ensure > reciprocity either; it means use the same license for derivatives, not share > like I have. A re-used OA article with CC-BY-SA can be re-used in a TA > environment). > > I recommend against the use of licenses allowing blanket commercial re-use to > authors, journals, OA advocates and policy-makers. > > best, > > Dr. Heather Morrison > Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa > Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa > Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight > Project > sustainingknowledgecommons.org > heather.morri...@uottawa.ca > https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706 > From: goal-boun...@eprints.org <goal-boun...@eprints.org> on behalf of Bernie > Folan <bernie.fo...@oaspa.org> > Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 7:01:54 AM > To: Bernie Folan > Subject: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members > > Attention : courriel externe | external email > ***With apologies for cross posting *** > > OASPA has published a new blog post summarising the results of a recent OA > article data collection exercise carried out with input from OASPA members. > > You can find the post at > https://oaspa.org/growth-continues-for-oaspa-member-oa-content/ > <https://oaspa.org/growth-continues-for-oaspa-member-oa-content/> > Some highlights: > > Total growth in output by OASPA members is 23%. This does include some new > contributors but on the whole, they were small numbers so don't count much > towards the total. > Growth in CC BY articles published in fully OA journals is 18% so this is > slightly higher than it has done for the past 5 years. > Over a quarter of a million CC BY articles were published by OASPA members in > fully OA journals last year. > Do feel free to share within your networks. > > Best wishes, > Bernie > > > Bernie Folan > Events and Communications Coordinator, OASPA > bernie.fo...@oaspa.org > <mailto:bernie.fo...@oaspa.org>_______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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