[BOAI] How much of the content in open repositories is able to meet the definition of open access?

[Richard Poynder]

OA advocates maintain that the formative definition of open access agreed at
the meeting that led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative means that only
papers with a CC BY licence attached can be described as open access. And
yet millions of papers in open repositories are not available with a CC BY
licence.

 

Take, for instance, PubMed Central, which currently has 4.2 million
documents deposited in it. A recent search shows that only 24% of the
non-historical documents in PMC have a CC BY licence, and so 76% of the
content cannot be described as open access. 

 

The good news is that the CC BY percentage in PMC is growing over time.
Nevertheless, that it has still only reached 24% a decade after the NIH
Public Access policy came into effect suggests that the OA movement still
has a way to go if it is to live up to the BOAI definition. 

 

More here:
http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-nih-public-access-policy-triumph-o
f.html

 

Richard Poynder 

 

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