[GOAL] Re: Is $99 per article realistic and compatible with profits - or too high a price

[Heather Morrison]

To state the obvious: Nature is offering researchers the choice to  
make their own decision about a range of CC licenses. This is not a  
unilateral decision! On the contrary, it is publishers who offer only  
one choice (such as CC-BY) that are making a unilateral decision.

As an open access advocate, I commend NPG for this decision. I  
recommend that publishers give authors the full range of CC licenses  
to choose from. This is the only CC license option consistent with an  
author's rights approach to scholarly communication.

Cellular Therapy and Transplantation provides what I consider the  
optimal creative commons model for open access journals: "CTT  
practices what I consider to be the optimal policy for an open access  
journal for CC licensing, requiring authors to use a CC license, but  
leaving copyright with the authors and allowing the author to select  
the CC license of their choice from among the full set of CC license  
options". From my blogpost, journals with good creative commons models:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2011/12/journals-with-good-creative-commons.html

Further down in this blogpost I commend the Nature Scientific Reports  
options. For further details and explanation of why I consider author  
choice to be optimal, see the blogpost.

best,

Heather Morrison, PhD
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com


On 5-Feb-13, at 12:37 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

> I would be interested in who took the decision to offer a range or  
> licences and whether this has had any consultation outside NPG.
> From my viewpoint I see it as a publisher taking unilateral  
> decisions about the dissemination of knowledge without community  
> involvement. NPG will (naturally) do what is best for NPG first and  
> the community second.  Has NPG followed any guidelines from  
> independent bodies?
>
>
>
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> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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