If we wait for subsidized Gold OA in order to reach universal
OA we will wait till the heat death of the universe.
Please, please let's get behind a realistic, pragmatic, scalable,
sustainable, reachable course of action otherwise we will keep
running off in all directions and getting nowhere
Many in the open access movement consider CC-BY to be the very embodiment of
the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - giving away all rights to
one's work, including commercial rights, for open access. My own take on this
is that while CC-BY can provide a useful tool for those fully
There is nothing preventing somebody from charging for a work provided
through a CC-BY or other CC license; however, the first person to
purchase such content then has the right (from the CC license) to
redistribute it freely, so in practice if any publisher tried to charge
it would be
Begin forwarded message:
From: Larivière Vincent vincent.larivi...@umontreal.ca
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] STI 2012 - Final programme now available
Date: 17 August, 2012 3:52:38 PM EDT
To: sigmetr...@listserv.utk.edu
Reply-To: ASIST Special Interest Group on Metrics
sigmetr...@listserv.utk.edu
Heather,
Ever heard of FUD? This is it.
Jan Velterop
Sent from my iPad
On 17 Aug 2012, at 18:54, Heather Morrison hgmor...@sfu.ca wrote:
Many in the open access movement consider CC-BY to be the very embodiment of
the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - giving away all rights
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stevan Harnad har...@ecs.soton.ac.ukwrote:
If we wait for subsidized Gold OA in order to reach universal
OA we will wait till the heat death of the universe.
Please, please let's get behind a realistic, pragmatic, scalable,
sustainable, reachable course of
