[BOAI] Re: Wiley Moves Towards Broader Open Access Licence

[Stevan Harnad]

Wiley publishes nearly 1500 journals
http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/

1064 of them are Wiley-Blackwell journals according to SHERPA-Romeo
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/pub/580/

And 246 of the John Wiley and Sons journals according to SHERPA-Romeo
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/pub/45/

Wiley Open Access publishes 12 pure-Gold OA journals (cost c. $2000 - $3000)
http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25d2979e/Authors.html

In addition the Wiley OnlineOpen Hybrid Gold OA option (cost c. $3000) is
available for some 1240 Wiley journals (80%), eight of them now offering
CC-BY.
http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-40

The SHERPA-Romeo information (as well as the Wiley information) on Wiley's
policy on un-embargoed Gratis Green OA self-archiving is now quite
complicated and difficult to understand, so let me put a very simple,
straight-forward question to John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-1) and to
Wiley-Blackwell (Wiley-2) publishers:

Does Wiley-1/Wiley-2, like Springer, formally recognize its authors' right
to make their final, refereed drafts OA immediately upon publication (no
embargo) by self-archiving them in their institutional OA repository (Green
OA)?

If the answer is yes, then the 1240 Wiley paid Gold OA options and the
eight of them with CC-BY are a very welcome and positive step.

If, unlike Springer (which also offers paid Gold, both full and hybrid),
Wiley-1/Wiley-2 embargoes Green OA, then Wiley's Gold OA options (including
CC-BY) are a Trojan Horse, and a highly expensive one, blocking Green OA in
order to force authors who want to provide immediate OA to pay for it, even
though institutional subscriptions are paying publication costs in full.

In the latter case, CC-BY is an (easy) sop, providing something that only a
few sub-fields need (CC-BY) at the cost of denying all fields what they
urgently need (OA) unless they are able and willing to pay Wiley even more
money for it.

A clear, unequivocal answer from Wiley-1/Wiley-2 could settle this at once.

And then we'll know whether Wiley's recent PR is indeed progress for OA, or
another attempt to block it (until it comes on the publisher's financial
terms).

Stevan Harnad

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Peter Suber <peter.suber at gmail.com> wrote:

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> *Wiley Moves Towards Broader Open Access Licence*
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> *Hoboken, N.J. – August 14, 2012*. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today
> announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published
> under the Wiley Open Access<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1616095>program. The journals will adopt the Creative Commons Attribution (
> CC-BY <http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1616096>)
> licence which allows commercial use of published articles.
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> The Wiley Open Access portfolio also includes journals published with
> society partners, many of which will similarly transfer to the Creative
> Commons Attribution licence.
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> Wiley is responding to recent developments in funder and government
> policies and supports the sustainable evolution of scientific publishing.
> The change will be implemented immediately.
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> Rachel Burley, Vice President and Director, Open Access, commented, “Wiley
> is committed to meeting the evolving needs of the authors who wish to
> provide open access to the published articles that convey the results of
> their research.”
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> Burley continued, “Our announcement today concerns Wiley’s fully open
> access journals. We are also reviewing the licensing arrangements for our
> hybrid program OnlineOpen, our open access option for individual articles
> published in subscription journals. In consultation with our publishing
> partners, we aim to continue to develop and deliver sustainable open access
> products providing author choice and high levels of service.”
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> In the first instance, the journals moving to the CC-BY licence are *Brain
> and Behavior<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619561>,
> Ecology and Evolution<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619562>,
> MicrobiologyOpen<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619563>,
> Cancer Medicine<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619564>,
> Food Science & Nutrition<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619565>,
> Evolutionary Applications<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619566>,
> Geoscience Data Journal<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619567>
> * and *EMBO Molecular Medicine<http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/click.asp?p=19539989&m=61245&u=1619568>
> *.
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> The CC-BY licence allows (with the correct attribution of the original
> creator) for the copying, distribution and transmission of the work.
> Adaption and commercial use is also permitted.
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