COAR » COAR joins Global Coalition calling on STM to Withdraw New Model Licenses

"COAR, along with numerous other organizations, is a signatory to a letter calling on the STM Association to withdraw their model licences for open access. These licenses just serve further confuse users about what they can do with articles of articles by introducing a whole new set of access and re-use conditions for content. We are calling on publishers to use instead Creative Commons licenses, which are already the already well-established and well-recognized by the community ..."