I've started a post on the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics to record some
of the current issues in copyright and licensing I notice as we gather data for
the May 2015 OA APC survey.
The first set of issues, illustrated by the journal Advances in Electrical and
Computer Engineering, are:
Issues
• copyright transfer
• posting final PDF to repository explicitly forbidden
• DOAJ indicates CC-BY-NC-ND while the journal site indicates All
Rights Reserved
Comments
This is far from optimal open access. I can understand why pushing for a CC-BY
default would be tempting as a solution. But would a more liberal CC license
solve these problems? This is less clear. If a journal requires author
copyright transfer, there can be a license agreement between author and
publisher that limits the rights of the author. If the publisher holds the
copyright, the publisher can change the license or transfer the journal to
another publisher that uses a different license.
DOAJ indicates that this journal is CC-BY-NC-ND, however I see no indication on
the journal website that this license is used. It is possible that the journal
changed policy at some point in time, in which case this information may have
been correct when it was entered, and may be correct for some of the content in
the journal, but not for articles published today. Indicating licensing at the
journal level is not the simple solution that it might seem.
Details and excerpts from the publisher's website:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/05/open-access-publishing-current-issues.html
I won't post every instance, just wanted to highlight that there are issues
like these and further research into practices and policy analysis would be
helpful.
best,
--
Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
[email protected]
_______________________________________________
GOAL mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
