[GOAL] Re: UK Research Councils plan to strengthen OA policy

[Kiley, Robert]

Peter

The RCUK policy on this is very clear - OA means CC-BY.

"The existing policy will be clarified by specifically stating that Open Access includes unrestricted use of manual and automated text and data mining tools. Also, that it
allows unrestricted re-use of content with proper attribution - as defined by the Creative Commons CC-BY licence.

Robert

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust
Sent: 13 March 2012 11:11
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: UK Research Councils plan to strengthen OA policy


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Richard Poynder <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk<mailto:ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk>> wrote:


The UK's Research Councils have proposed a revised policy on Open Access which further clarifies RCUK's definition of OA and strengthens some of the criteria that must be satisfied. In particular, the policy commits to libre Open Access as the agreed RCUK definition, ...

Please can you clarify what is the RCUK's definition of "OA" and "libre".  I hope that libre means "consistent with BOAI/BBB" or else it is operationally useless for anything other than human eyeballs. (See Wiley's definition of "fully open access" - I review this in http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/04/wiley%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfully-open-access%E2%80%9D-chemistry-open-my-review-if-this-is-%E2%80%9Cgold-oa%E2%80%9D-i-don%E2%80%99t-want-it/ )  For example do the members of this list really believe that this is "libre"?


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