[BOAI] Re: IOP Publishing moves to CC-BY licence for open access articles and bibliographic metadata

[Marcin Wojnarski]

Good news. I'm curious about the statement on "bibliographic metadata": 
isn't it the case that metadata is always free to use, without a need for 
any license? Bibliographic metadata are just statements of facts (person X 
published paper Y ...) - that's nothing that could be copyrighted. Even if 
an abstract is included, it still comprises no more than 5% of the work and 
can be freely used under "fair use" principle, even for Toll Access papers 
- correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm pointing this out because any confusions in this area work against OA 
and academia. I think scholars should know their rights and not rely on 
publishers for clarifications, as some publishers may be more willing to 
introduce even more fuzz than to teach scholars their rights (I mean 
publishers in general, not particularly IOP).

Regards
Marcin


On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:08:57 PM UTC+2, Peter Suber wrote:
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> [Forwarding from IOP Publishing.  --Peter Suber.]
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> IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced a significant change to its 
> copyright arrangements for research published on an open access basis in 
> the company’s wholly owned journals and for bibliographic metadata. 
>   
> As a result of this move, the company will adopt a more liberal Creative 
> Commons licence (CC-BY 3.0) for future articles published on a 'gold' open 
> access basis.  This licence allows others to distribute, remix, amend, and 
> build upon a piece of work as long as they credit the original creation. 
> The licences grant rights to the users of the content but do not replace 
> the copyright, which remains with the copyright holder. 
>
> The change applies to articles being published on an open access basis in 
> all IOP owned 'hybrid' journals and the gold open access titles New Journal 
> of Physics and Environmental Research Letters.   
>   
> In addition to the change in licence for open access articles, the basic 
> metadata of the articles in IOP's own journals will also be available for 
> use under a CC-BY licence.  This is intended to increase the visibility of 
> such data and to help clarify to third parties what they can and cannot do 
> with metadata.   
>   
> Nicola Gulley, IOP's Editorial Director, said of the move, "IOP Publishing 
> has long been a supporter of sustainable open access and we have a proud 
> history of experimentation and innovation with different models of 
> publishing.  We felt this new move was a natural step that will help the 
> company fulfil its mission to provide the scientific community with tools 
> to ensure the maximum dissemination of research, help foster collaborations 
> between research groups, and meet the requirements of Funding Agencies and 
> organisations." 
>
> Unless specifically requested, articles submitted before 25 October will 
> be published under a Creative Commons-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 
> licence. Articles submitted on or after 25th October will automatically be 
> published under a CC-BY licence. IOP's copyright statements on 
> iopscience.iop.org have been updated to reflect this change. 
>
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