On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11 December 2011 19:37, Heather Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If Springer Open becomes a wild success and eventually Springer goes full >> CC-BY for all of their journals, then anyone can take Springer journals and >> re-sell them. Imagine if Elsevier were to take these journals and sell >> them, but not sharealike, then Elsevier could sell a version of Science >> Direct that includes all of the Springer journals > > > But what would be the point? If access to those (Springer) journals is > free anyway, it does Elsevier no good to 'sell' access to them. If > anything, it increases the impact of those journals by reminding > researchers to look at them. > It's also worth noting that BiomedCentral have published completely Open journals for a decade under a CC-BY licence and that PLoS are also completely CC-BY. I know of no significant reselling of content. There is, perhaps, a danger that major metadata sellers might resell access to the complete literature. That's why we are also campaigning for Open Buibliography so we don't get locked into/out_of a walled garden. -- 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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