Jeffrey Beall wrote: > > The two biggest problems I see are 1). > Contradictory licensing statements, such as the one shown below >
I agree with the previous replies that there's no contradiction in the text displayed in the image provided. But I went to the journal's website (http://www.ijsat.com), and clicked on "Terms of use". And there one finds a gross contradiction. Some excerpts: "IJSAT's Web site and all of its materials, [...] are protected by copyright. [...] This is a limited license [...] subject to the following restrictions: (a) you may not copy, reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, post, modify, create derivative works from, sell, license or otherwise exploit this site or any of its Materials without our prior written permission; ([...] Any unauthorized copying, alteration, distribution, transmission, performance, display, or other use of these Materials is prohibited." This is of course completely at odds with the CC-BY license. Well, this journal is on Jeffrey's list (of predatory journals)... As to the fact that authors must transfer their copyright to the journal, I don't think it's a problem: in practice, the effect of the CC-BY license is exactly the same if it has been attached by the author or by the journal, according to which party holds the copyright. In particular, the -BY condition means attribution to the author, even if the journal holds the copyright. But, as a matter of principle, I think publishers should not require transfer of copyright when the CC-BY license is used. Serious open-access publishers like PLoS and Biomed Central don't do that. Marc Couture _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
