I would definitely support this.
Laurent

Le 9 oct. 2012 à 23:28, Peter Murray-Rust a écrit :

> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Jan Velterop <velte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is an inconsistency here, either way. We've always heard, from Stevan 
> Harnad, that the author was the one who intrinsically had copyright on the 
> manuscript version, so could deposit it, as an open access article, in an 
> open repository irrespective of the publisher's views. If that is correct, 
> then the author could also attach a CC-BY licence to the manuscript version. 
> If it is incorrect, the author can't deposit the manuscript with open access 
> without the explicit permission of the publisher of his final, published 
> version, and the argument advanced for more than a decade by Stevan Harnad is 
> invalid. Which is it? I think Stevan was right, and a manuscript can be 
> deposited with open access whether or not the publisher likes it. Whence his 
> U-turn, I don't know. But if he was right at first, and I believe that's the 
> case, that also means that it can be covered by a CC-BY licence. Repositories 
> can't attach the licence, but 'gold' OA publishers can't either. It's always 
> the author, as copyright holder by default. All repositories and OA 
> publishers can do is require it as a condition of acceptance (to be included 
> in the repository or to be published). What the publisher can do if he 
> doesn't like the author making available the manuscript with open access, is 
> apply the Ingelfinger rule or simply refuse to publish the article.
> 
> 
> Jan,
> I think this is very important.
> 
> If we can establish the idea of Green-CC-BY as the norm for deposition in 
> repositories then I would embrace it enthusiastically. I can see no downside 
> other than that some publishers will fight it. But they fight anyway 
> 
> It also clairfies the difference between the final author ms and the 
> publisher version of record.
> 
> It would resolve all the apparent problems of the Finch reoprt etc. It is 
> only because Green licences are undefined that we have this problem at all.
> 
> And if we all agreed it could be launched for Open Access Week
> 
> -- 
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
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Laurent Romary
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