Steven Krivit wrote:
That is why I recommend a CCAL instead of a copyright. So that
permission is granted automatically to anyone, under the terms of the CCAL.
Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living ?
Assisted living? Does that have anything do to with Health Care Death
Panels? I meant Creative Commons Attribution License; see:
http://www.plos.org/journals/license.html
http://www.plos.org/oa/definition.html
"Open Access License -- No permission required." The ICCF committee
people seem to be treating this as a radical and untested new idea. I
think they are unaware of progress in on-line, open access academic
papers. This movement hit the big time in 2003 with the Bethesda Statement:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
The open source academic paper movement has the support of most major
universities:
<http://www.plos.org/support/instmembers/northamerica.html>http://www.plos.org/support/instmembers/northamerica.html
Incidentally, all PLoS journals are available on paper from a
print-on-demand source:
<http://www.plos.org/journals/print.html>http://www.plos.org/journals/print.html
The ICCF organizers tend to be old fashioned and unaware of thing
like this. Also, they seem to think that a copyright is necessary,
and a book must be printed by a known scientific publisher or it will
not be taken seriously.
- Jed
