[BOAI] Re: [GOAL] On the proposal to raise the Green OA goalpost from Gratis to CC-BY

[Andras Holl]

Hi,

My opinion is that libre OA and CC By in particular is something
that sounds good, but in reality nothing more than a misconception.
It is thoughts, facts, ideas which should be reusable - and they
already are - not articles. Gratis OA is what the scientific community
needs, not libre. I operate a journal and several repository
collections, all of my users appreciate and demand access, none
of them wants anything more. Data mining would indeed be desirable,
but how? At repositories we already have OAI-PMH. Green OA
have the potential for even more. In my journal data mining is
allowed (with technical conditions), but the journal's own
sohisticated search system can provide more. Full text search
is fine, but it is really semantic web? Is searching strings
in the text data mining? I thing putting the CC BY label on 
articles does not help much in this direction. We should think
about providing machine-readable abstracts for articles, applying
technologies like OAI ORE, instead of championing CC BY - something
that should serve a completely different purpose. See my
letter in JLCS ( http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol1/iss2/5/ ).

I agree with Stephan that tactically it is best to focus
on gratis Green OA (without discouraging Gold). What I am saying
more is that strategically CC BY is not what we want.

Andras Holl