What actually is Elsevier’s open-access licence? « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“Like many scholarly publishers that work primarily on the subscription model, Elsevier allows authors to opt in to open access by paying a fee, currently $3000.  (While that’s more than twice the $1350 that PLoS ONE charges, it’s comparable to the $2900 that PLoS Biology charges, identical to Springer’s $3000 fee, and slightly less than Taylor & Francis’s “Open Select” fee of $3250.) ... But what are we actually allowed to do with Elsevier’s open-access articles?  Can we re-use their figures?  Can we extensively quote them?  Can we text-mine them?  Can we mechanically extract taxonomic information and add it to databases?  To answer these important questions, we need to see the specific licence that’s in play... For example, articles published by PLoS are fully open access, using the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).  This means that PLoS articles unambiguously meet the original definition of the term “open access” as stated by the Budapest Open Access Initiative... Is this true of Elsevier’s open-access articles? I don’t know. It’s actually surprisingly tricky to discover exactly what the terms of Elsevier’s open-access option are: they’re not spelled out on their Sponsored Articles page... nor on the article sponsorship form... nor in this other article sponsorship form that I found elsewhere on their site...”

Link:

http://svpow.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/what-actually-is-elseviers-open-access-licence/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 14:53

Date published:

02/23/2012, 15:26