[GOAL] Re: Licence of IEEE "Gold OA" papers?

[Ross Mounce]

IEEE appears to offer optional paid gratis OA (not BOAI-compliant)
with no clear re-use licence statement in the 'open access' PDFs they
publish.

e.g. this article http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TED.2012.2188632 is
indicated as 'open access' with a logo in the contents page
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A6186852%29&pageNumber=2

more details on IEEE 'Open Access'
 from www.ieee.org/documents/ieee_open_access_faq_2011.pdf

"This is a hybrid open access program that provides authors with an
option to make their articles freely available to the public through
IEEE Xplore®, in exchange for a fee to support publishing costs. This
voluntary open access plan was first adopted on an experimental basis
by two IEEE journals – IEEE Photonics Journal (est. 2009) and IEEE
Magnetics Letters (est. 2010), and is now being implemented throughout
the IEEE journal program, beginning in August 2011 with 77 journals
produced through IEEE Publishing Operations, followed by journals
produced by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society...
Any article designated as “open access” in these journals is
automatically made publicly accessible, at no charge to the user.
Other articles in the journal remain available only to paid
subscribers. "

* cost to authors :

"the IEEE has established a uniform fee of $3,000 for open access
publication in any of its journals"

* list of IEEE journals that allow optional paid hybrid 'open access':

http://ieee.org/documents/ieee_journals_with_oa.pdf

* Where do the collected author fees go?

Author payments will be directed to Societies sponsoring the
respective journals, just as voluntary page charges and other fees are
channeled.

* If an author pays the IEEE Open Access charge, would his or her
article still be subject to an overlength page charge?

Yes. The two fees have distinct rationales: IEEE Open Access supports
the cost of preparing an article for posting on the open web.
Overlength page charges support the costs of printing extra pages
above a standard length set by the journal.



I'll add IEEE to my spreadsheet. If you know of any other journal
publishers that aren't listed in my spreadsheet. Please let me know.


Thanks,

Ross


On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Brett PTB Mr (PG/R - Electronic Eng) <P.Brett at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> Does anyone know what the actual licensing is of papers published under the IEEE's "Open Access Fee" Gold OA scheme?  It's really not at all clear from browsing IEEE Xplore.
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> There are a lot of publishers's sites that are actually not clear.
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> Ross Mounce (copied) has made a great survey (https://sites.google.com/site/rossmounce/misc/a-survey-of-open-access-publisher-licenses) but I can't find the IEEE in it. I suspect that may because they tend of publish workshop papers as well as/ instead of journals.
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>> Context: I ask because we're currently re-evaluating our list of target journals in preparation for REF, and one of our criteria is extent of compatibility with the proposed RCUK CC-BY archiving mandate.
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> Very good to see this criterion.
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>> Regards,
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>>                                   Peter
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