http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/386-Dont-Risk-Getting-Less-By-Needlessly-Demanding-More.html
Peter Suber has answered at
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/04/price-and-permission-barriers-again.html
Peter Murray-Rust (and I) have often argued that permission barriers
must
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Klaus Graf wrote:
How many people must die because an OA guru says There is a
need to update BBB and denies the need of re-use?
Ummm, a bit shrill! But here's my (6-step) answer:
(1) We have neither price-freedom nor permission-freedom today. (So
if people are
At the Wellcome Trust we also believe that fair use is not enough if
the benefits of text and data-mining - with its promise of discovering
new knowledge - are to be fully realised.
Consequently, as a condition of paying an open access fee, the Trust
requires publishers to licence these articles
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Robert Kiley [Wellcome Trust] wrote:
Conscious that this licence only extends to gold OA articles, the
Trust is continuing to work with publishers to explore the possibility
of developing a similar licence for author manuscripts.
It's important that everyone understand