This percentage is a bit higher in developing and transition countries. Last year I checked 2,489 open access journals in EIFL partner countries, 556 journals used CC licenses and 94% of these journals used CC BY (524 open access journals in Armenia, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Lithuania, Macedonia, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Thailand). 524 out of 2,489 is 21% CC BY (http://www.eifl.net/news/implementation-open-content-licenses). And I plan to check how this looks like this year (with 3,400+ open access journals in EIFL partner countries).
I agree with your several possible explanations, in my context especially with * ignorance of the issues * incompetence * copying what others do Best wishes, Iryna Iryna Kuchma EIFL Open Access Programme Manager [email protected] skype: iryna.kuchma twitter:@irynakuchma _____________________________________ EIFL: Knowledge Without Boundaries Follow EIFL on Facebook, Twitter and RSS.   View EIFL photos and videos on Flickr and YouTube. Sign up for the EIFL newsletter. On 26 April 2012 15:13, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Iryna Kuchma <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Sridhar, I agree with you that CC BY ND license is quite restrictive and that CC BY is an optimal solution. Perhaps in your advice you can refer to: There are very few "Gold" open access journals among the major publishers (BMC and PLoS, and presumably eLife being exceptions). Those three - and the small amount of material in nonBMC-Springer - are under CC-BY. Many publishers offer "hybrid Open Access" where authors pay large amounts for their material to appear as "Open Access". This term is not operationally defined and almost all publishers have declined to offer CC-BY, ranging from CC-NC to homegrown conditions that are more restrictive than normal copyright. Ross Mounce (http://science.okfn.org/blog/) has done a survey of over 100 publishers and their "Open Access" offering and shown that only 5% are CC-BY. There are several possible explanations * ignorance of the issues * incompetence * copying what others do * an attempt to reduce the value of "Open Access". Given that some fees can be 5000 USD or more per paper for a substandard "Open Access" product this does considerable damage. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
