Dissension in the open access ranks on CC licenses and strategy tips for scholarly publishers

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Following are my tips for scholarly publishers facing pressure to adopt CC-BY licenses....There are strong and valid arguments for why CC-BY is the license that most closely fits that BOAI definition of open access. However, I would argue that there are flaws in CC-BY that make it incompatible with the larger definition and aims of BOAI. For this reason, I would advocate that CC-BY-NC-SA is actually the strongest open access license, as this ensures open access downstream...."

Link:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/dissension-in-open-access-ranks-on-cc.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.licensing oa.comment oa.cc oa.debates oa.libre

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:07

Date published:

12/13/2011, 16:33