News & Views: Breaking Out Open Access License Types - Delta Think
peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-01-18
Summary:
"Overall, the Permissive licenses (CC0, CC BY – the paler colors) are most commonly used, outnumbering more restrictive ones by around 3:2.
- Within fully OA journals, the ratio is similar to the overall average, compared with an even split in hybrid publications.
- Long-term trends (not shown here) suggest that fully OA output and the use of permissive licenses is slowly gaining share.
- The underlying data has changed since last year. This year’s data shows greater numbers of fully OA journals, with a slightly greater prevalence of permissive licenses....
The data support what many of us know from anecdotal discussions. The majority of OA output is published under more permissive licenses. In particular the CC BY license dominates, especially in fully OA journals, and especially by OASPA members. It’s useful to see this confirmed across the market, and also to see how the figures differ for the large publishers.
However, licenses that allow sharing with some restrictions remain significant and show no signs of collapsing. Many publishers continue to make use of them. In fact, restricted licenses cover the majority of output in some disciplines...."