Open and Shut?: Rockefeller University Press: CC-BY is not essential for Open Access

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-03-13

Summary:

The new Open Access (OA) policy that Research Councils UK (RCUK) plans to introduce on April 1st has proved highly controversial within the research community. 
Mike Rossner Some have expressed concern over its preference for Gold OA (OA publishing), and its concomitant disdain for Green OA (self-archiving). Others have been angeredby its vacillating attitude over the appropriate length for self-archiving embargoes.
But what may turn out to be the most divisive aspect of the new policy are its licensing requirements, notably its insistence that when RCUK-funded researchers embrace Gold OA, and pay an article-processing charge (APC), the publisher must make the paper available under a CC-BY licence.
Adding to the discomfort of those who are unhappy with this funding condition, on the same day (April 1st) the UK’s Wellcome Trust  — which was highly influential in the development of the RCUK policy — will introduce a similar rule.
The divisiveness of this new licensing approach is, perhaps, no better demonstrated than the decision by the executive director of Rockefeller University Press (RUP) Mike Rossner to pen an editorial called “New mandates? No problem for The Rockefeller University Press”.
In the editorial, Rossner questions the need for RCUK and Wellcome to insist on CC-BY, and challenges their justification that it is necessary to do so in order to permit reuse of the research they have funded, particularly through text and data mining of papers.

Link:

http://poynder.blogspot.de/2013/03/rockefeller-university-press-cc-by-is.html

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

Tags:

oa.frpaa oa.rwa oa.nih oa.petitions oa.cc oa.fair_use oa.access2research oa.rup oa. oa.mining

Date tagged:

03/13/2013, 13:33

Date published:

03/13/2013, 09:33