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

[Jan Velterop]

On 10 Oct 2012, at 22:27, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
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> Let's hypothesize that we could achieve 80% green (visible Green, not hidden AlmostVisible) in 7 years' time. (I think that's optimistic). Are we then "allowed" to initiate a CC-BY activity? And by that time the nature of publication will have changed dramatically (because if it doesn't academia will be seriously out of step with this the philosophy and practice of this century). 
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> We have to proceed in parallel. No-one - not even SH - can predict the future accurately. I believe that Green-CC-BY is possible and that if we do it on a coherent positive basis it can work. There is no legal reason why we cannot archive Green CC-BY and it is not currently explicitly prevented by any publisher I know of.  Try it - rapidly - and see what happens. My guess is that a lot of publishers will let it go forward.
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> The publishers own the citation space. It is their manuscript which is the citable one. Green-CC-BY doesn't remove that. Actually it makes it better because it will increase citations through all the enhancements we can add to re-usable manuscripts.

This is particularly relevant once mined data can be reliably attributed, not only to the author, but also to the journal from which they were mined. Several developments are well underway in that regard: http://www.openphacts.org/ and http://nanopub.org/wordpress/ are some examples.

Jan Velterop

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> And I will state again that for my purposes (and those of many others) Green CC-BY gives me everything I want without , I believe, destroying the publishers' market.
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> We are in a period of very rapid technical and social change and we need to be actively changing the world of scholarship, not waiting for others to constrain our future.
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> P.
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