On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Heather Joseph <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent question, and thanks thanks to Peter for raising this point. > SPARC's Steering Committee is meeting tomorrow, and I will put this > item at the top of our list for discussion. If, as I suspect, they > want to do an update, I'll will be in touch with Mike Carroll pronto > for assistance. > Thanks Heather, Have you seen the almost universal CC-NC that Ross Mounce has accumulated for hybridOA? We have to change this now or we will spend a decade trying to recover the ground > Very important issue. Again, my thanks for raising it! > > H. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Dec 11, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Daniel Mietchen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK, so what's the process of updating this author addendum? > > Daniel > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> open-science mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science > >> > -- 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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