Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - A clarification, apology and plaudits: The Royal Society of Chemistry offers APC Open Access under CC-BY « petermr's blog

"I must apologize to the Royal Society of Chemistry for material in the blog last week (http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2013/07/31/does-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-deliver-on-its-commitments-on-open-access/ ). I failed to give the complete picture by implying that the RSC did not offer CC-BY as a paid option for Open Access. RSC does (http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2013/RSC-adopts-CC-BY-licence-open-access.asp ), and I should have congratulated them on the change and do so ... I believe that the CC-NC option (which I discourage) is priced identically to the CC-BY option and so there is no price pressure to choose the more restrictive licence. I have argued elsewhere http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2013/08/01/why-cc-nc-hurts-authors-hurts-readersreusers-and-only-makes-additional-money-for-publishers/ why I believe this to be harmful."