On 10-Oct-12, at 2:58 PM, David Prosser wrote:
...The simple fact is that the Springer OA articles published to date
will remain OA whoever purchases the company
Comment:
This sounds very reassuring. However, I argue that this is not a
simple fact at all. Please explain how this work and how
Heather,
1) Open access licences — of any kind, including all the CC-licences, not just
CC-BY — cannot be revoked. Only replaced, by the licensor (the © holder), by a
more liberal one. E.g. CC-BY-NC licences by CC-BY ones. Springer, or its
successors and assigns, will not be able to make OA art
From the Springer website (http://www.springeropen.com/about):
SpringerOpen supports several international archives and digital repositories,
and encourages self-archiving by authors
All research articles published in a SpringerOpen journal are archived without
delay in several international arc
On 10 Oct 2012, at 22:27, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>
> Let's hypothesize that we could achieve 80% green (visible Green, not hidden
> AlmostVisible) in 7 years' time. (I think that's optimistic). Are we then
> "allowed" to initiate a CC-BY activity? And by that time the nature of
> publication
Jean-Claude’s approach is very sensible, and very much in the interests of OA.
The gratis/libre distinction is valuable but it should not become a fundamental
disagreement between OA supporters of good will. Those who need OA content will
be the losers if we take too dogmatic an approach to such
I agree that portraying 'green' OA as not providing 'real' OA is to be avoided.
"Real OA" has become a wholly meaningless term, due to the proliferation of
different perceptions that has taken place, unintentionally or deliberately.
Instead, using the unambiguous "BOAI-compliant OA" is to be rec
On 2012-10-11, at 12:26 AM, Andras Holl wrote:
> My opinion is that libre OA and CC By in particular is something
> that sounds good, but in reality nothing more than a misconception.
> It is thoughts, facts, ideas which should be reusable - and they
> already are - not articles. Gratis OA is what
On 10 Oct 2012, at 23:37, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote:
> Jan,
>
> I do not think it does, provided that the *wherever* quest for libre that you
> suggest does not get confused with the *absolute need* to get libre and
> nothing else.
That would be silly. But the *absolute need* is there, for dat
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Andras Holl"
> Subject: [BOAI] Re: On the proposal to raise the Green OA goalpost from
> Gratis to CC-BY
> Date: 11 October, 2012 7:42:05 AM EDT
> To: boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Reply-To: boai-fo...@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>
> Hi David,
>
> I have argued against in
