Re: [GOAL] Who is leading the global charge for open access?

[William Gunn]

Indeed, our friends in the Global South have been quietly getting in with
it for some years & we could learn a few things from them.

About your comment "the commercial elements of our industry continue to
cause unprecedented damage to our research and our society", though...
PeerJ is a commercial element of the industry. I'm pretty sure you didn't
mean to say Pete Binfield & Jason Hoyt have caused unprecedented damage to
our society, so perhaps you'd like to rephrase & maybe be more careful with
your language in the future?

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 2:00 AM Jon Tennant  wrote:

> Dear list members, apologies for cross-posting as always,
>
> Many of you probably saw this powerful recent article by Humberto Debat
> and Dominique Babini, "Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note"
> https://peerj.com/preprints/27834/, which is well worth reading if you
> haven't.
>
> Building upon this, in this latest video for the Open Science MOOC,
> Arianna Becerril-Garcia from AmeliCA and Redalyc discusses the leading role
> they are playing with Open Access in Latin America.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQDFHBJX7xI
>
> It is really quite inspiring. For those of us in the western world, I feel
> like a lot of the time we like to think we are leading the global charge
> for OA. I learned many years ago that this is not true, and in fact the
> commercial elements of our industry continue to cause unprecedented damage
> to our research and our society. We should be looking to our friends in
> Latin America about the incredible work they have been doing for decades
> now. It is quite eye-opening, and I think a discussion worth developing.
>
> Have a great weekend!
>
> Jon
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[GOAL] Re-use of photos of people requires consent

[Heather Morrison]

This BBC news article today about a man who discovered that pictures of his 
amputated leg had been used in ads without his consent may help to illustrate 
one of the problems with pushing for OA with ubiquitous licensing. I have no 
idea if the image was CC licensed or not; that is not the point, rather the 
point is to give more thought to the implications of re-use. In brief, with 
such images other rights are often involved besides copyright, such as privacy 
and publicity rights.

Article here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49029845

If researchers and publishers use CC licenses that actively invite re-use of 
material, they increase the chances of situations like this for human subjects. 
Researchers in Canada have an ethical obligation to protect human subjects; I 
submit that this is reason to avoid open licensing with such material. People 
who have consented to participate in a weight loss study have not consented to 
have their photos used in targeted advertising to their friends on social media 
by weight loss companies. I argue that a weight loss company would have good 
reason to interpret CC-BY as an invitation to this kind of downstream 
commercial use.

This is also a legal risk for researchers, their employers, publishers and 
policy-makers who require open licensing, because a problematic downstream 
re-user could use the open license as a defence. This could start a chain of 
lawsuits (I thought this was ok because CC-BY: sue author; author used CC-BY 
because advised or required to do so by journal or policy-maker, author sues 
journal or policy-maker...)

It is naive to think that a blanket invitation to re-use material from 
scholarly works will be used exclusively or even primarily for the purposes of 
advancing knowledge.

Common uses of material such as images of people in social media include (along 
with many beneficial uses) cyberbullying, doxing, revenge porn, targeted 
advertising, posting, re-posting and tagging photos without permission, and 
altering photos without permission, to name a few not-so-social uses of new 
media.

I wish we lived in a world where mutual respect and consideration could be 
taken for granted. Today, it is not clear that we can expect this standard even 
from elected leaders. For human subjects, it is not much to ask that we take 
the small step of avoiding attaching licenses granting blanket downstream 
re-use rights to anyone, to reduce the risk of harm and to make it as easy as 
possible to use legal remedies to stop harm, should this be necessary.

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
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[GOAL] eLife introduces first demonstration of the open-source publishing platform Libero Publisher

[Emily Packer]

[With apologies for cross-posting]

Dear All,

eLife is pleased to announce today the first working example of our
open-source journal hosting and post-production publishing system, Libero
Publisher.

The demo showcases some of the essential components of a journal on Libero
Publisher, including a homepage and research articles with author lists and
affiliations, figures and references. Additional features are being added
weekly, sometimes daily, as the platform evolves quickly to accommodate
increasingly complex content types.

For further details, please see the full announcement at
https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/d5b3c1bf/elife-introduces-first-demonstration-of-the-open-source-publishing-platform-libero-publisher
.

I hope this is of interest. If you'd like more information, please don't
hesitate to contact me.

Best wishes,

Emily

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[GOAL] Full Program for 2019 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing announced

[Bernie Folan]

The full program for the 2019 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly
Publishing is now available. The conference will be held at the Royal
Danish Library in Copenhagen on 24-26th September 2019.

The program is available on the conference website http://oaspa
.org/conference/, along with registration details.


We welcome delegates from a wide range of backgrounds at all stages of
their careers who are working in publishing, librarianship, government,
higher education, funding agencies, nonprofits, and other affiliated
industries.

Two networking receptions for delegates will be held on the evenings of
Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th September.


We hope to see you there!


Best wishes,

Bernie

*Bernie Folan*
Events and Communications Coordinator, OASPA
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