European Commission has adopted the BOAI definition for years now (at least in
2007) see for example
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/open-access-pilot-in-ec-ppt_en.pdf
In a recent document
Open access Journal of Southern Religion adopts Creative Commons Attribution
license
http://wp.me/p20y83-q5
Earlier this month, the long-time online open access Journal of Southern
Religion (ISSN: 1094-5253) began releasing its content under a Creative Commons
Attribution license. The
Tomasz is certainly right in his reading of researchers needs and wants:
Most researchers neither need nor want more than that their refereed
articles should be free for all users online (Gratis OA).
The BBB definition of OA has been considerably refined in the 10 years
since we first improvised
Dear Tomasz,
your understanding of OA is not in line with the Berlin Declaration:
Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:
1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to
all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license
to
Unless I am missing it, the SpringerOpen web site does not have any specific
information on the publication fee for OA books. All I could find was,
SpringerOpen books charge a publication fee at the beginning of the
publication process. This fee varies depending on the number of pages per
book.
