BMJ’s unacceptable use of CC licences: No sun beds!! « petermr's blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-03-21

Summary:

"Lest you think this blog is solely concerned with bashing Elsevier, it tries to be impartial. Most of the time I get my targets from the puffing of publishers on Twiiter flaunting their 'open access offerings' and it just happens that the worst offender by far is Elsevier. But there are others with completely unacceptable activities. Here I am very grateful to Thomas Munro, who writes (http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/17/elsevier-admits-it-has-been-mis-selling-open-access-and-will-be-contacting-mis-sold-customers/#comment-152848 ): Strangely, I’ve just found that BMJ do the same thing, e.g. this 'CC BY-NC' article ..."

Link:

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/18/bmjs-unacceptable-use-of-cc-licences-no-sun-beds/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.bmj oa.fees oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.libre

Date tagged:

03/21/2014, 08:02

Date published:

03/21/2014, 04:02