I have discovered to my surprise and disappointment that the SPARC/SC author addendum for scholarly publishing requests the publisher to allow the author to distribute their work under a CC-NC or equivalent licence. The addendum was created as a joint activity between Science Commons and SPARC (copied). http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.shtml and http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/Access-Reuse_Addendum.pdf
4. Author’s Retention of Rights. Notwithstanding any terms in the Publication Agreement to the contrary, AUTHOR and PUBLISHER agree that in addition to any rights under copyright retained by Author in the Publication Agreement, Author retains: (i) the rights to reproduce, to distribute, to publicly perform, and to publicly display the Article in any medium for noncommercial purposes; (ii) the right to prepare derivative works from the Article; and (iii) the right to authorize others to make any *non-commercial use* of the Article so long as Author receives credit as author and the journal in which the Article has been published is cited as the source of first publication of the Article. For example, Author may make and distribute copies in the course of teaching and research and may post the Article on personal or institutional Web sites and in other open-access digital repositories. This was crafted in 2006 and since then there is abundant evidence and argument that CC-NC is extremely limiting (e.g. no permission to use diagrans in textbooks and also unworkable). We have heard on this list that CC are considering an option to retire CC-NC. The addendum was primarily crafted for cases where the author did not pay for publication. Yet almost all publishers now licence PAID "open Access" as CC-NC. Michael Carroll (copied) was one of the authors of the SPARC addendum but now argues strongly for "full open Access" - i.e. libre-OA, OKD compliant: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001210 Yet CC-NC is becoming more common, not less, in paid "Open Access". I do not know why this is happening but the publishers are using CC-NC even with fees of up to 5000 USD per article. The more that this is allowed to happen unchallenged, the more we destroy any hope of real Open access, even when paid by funders. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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