Publishers: Why is all your content not accessible?

peter.suber's bookmarks 2015-01-18

Summary:

"In order to make a start at providing accessibility, here is my humble advice to publishers:
* Publish your XML – the whole point of XML is to allow creation of new formats easily. So if I pay for an article, give me not only the HTML and the PDF, but the XML too.
* Ensure your XML is correct. Mandate automated XML-first pagination from your suppliers to avoid embarrassing errors like that pointed out above.
* Make sure that your licenses allow third parties to use the XML to create new formats, and even encourage them to do so.
* If you are an OA publisher, please don’t use the ND versions of CC licenses."

Link:

http://www.digital-science.com/blog/guest/publishers-why-is-all-your-content-not-accessible/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.handicap oa.xml oa.formats oa.licensing oa.libre

Date tagged:

01/18/2015, 11:22

Date published:

01/18/2015, 06:22