Ross has done a great job on surveying publishers - about 30 rows out of 115 and some of these are nor relevant. I have renamed the spreadsheet and some fields to "gratisOA" because it is more informative than "fakeOA".
The situation is far worse than I thought. Author-paid and funder-paid hybrid Open Access is almost universally not OA-libre (only one of 30 was libre-OA (Amer Phys Soc). Fees range from 1000 USD to 5000 USD (though this is based on very few). the Commonest licence is CC-NC (or variants). A few publishers don't mention licences and try to express this in web-page prose. We are at a critical point. If this continues, even for a few months, we'll universally have paid "OpenAccess" that does not meet the Open Definition. Most pubishers are not "Open Access" publishers in that they don't have Open Access (gold) journals so they will come to see the acceptable level of paid "Open Access" as CC-NC. (A licence that is neither Open nor operable and may be retired by CC). The result will be a sludge of non-interoperable articles and either a series of individual squabbles of funders with publishers or a resignation that non-libre-OA is all that the Open Access movement can achieve. It will then spend billions of dollars on a product of little value. At least the OKF, if no-one else, understands. Our immediate goal is to summarise the position objectively. Then we can present this to funders and government. We urgently need more volunteers. That means you. I'd guess that the total amount of time is < 1 hour per publisher. (It clearly is for Ross as he has done 30 in less than 30 hours elapsed). That's perhaps 50 hours across the whole of OKF readers. You don't have to be a scientist to do it - just be prepared to look at endless websites. P. -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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