[GOAL] Re: RCUK policy: relationship between green and CC-BY-NC

[Hans Pfeiffenberger]

Mark,

Am 01.02.13 11:07, schrieb Thorley, Mark R.:
> The policy does not define a specific licence for green deposit, provided non-commercial re-use such as text and data mining is supported.
if now Google (Scholar) set out to go beyond indexing and offered 
(free) access to text mining of the documents they crawled, this would 
most certainly be a commercial activity.

Wouldn't you think that an explicit endorsement of publishers claiming 
a limitation of commercial use from authors is unwise? How can 
repositories make sure that "nobody" is making commercial use of the 
manuscripts they hold? Do they need to exclude Google (Scholar) from 
indexing, just in case?

(@PMR: Contrary to what you believe, I would operate and formulate 
policy from the assumption that sooner or later documents from almost 
*all* disciplines may be mined profitably)

Just to mention another commercial use: ResearchGate (allegedly a 
social network for researchers) and similars are certainly for profit 
(even if one cannot see how they could make a profit). Is a researcher 
allowed to upload their manuscript there?

best,

Hans
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