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

[Arthur Sale]

Just on ResearchGate: Yes, you can upload your manuscripts. ResearchGate
will also tell you if someone has uploaded one which might be yours (as
co-author) and ask you to confirm it as yours.  I consider that ResearchGate
is a key area of expansion of OA. Stevan will tell you it is just another
Green Road (author self-archiving) but I have called it the Titanium Road to
emphasise that it is based on social networking rather than mandates.

 

ResearchGate also shows doubtful commerciality. Does it use the article in a
commercial way? Probably not. Does it make money from something? Probably,
but not from selling articles. This is murky, as are many issues in OA.

 

Arthur Sale

Tasmania, Australia

 

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Hans Pfeiffenberger
Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2013 3:49 AM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: RCUK policy: relationship between green and CC-BY-NC

 

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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