[GOAL] Rockefeller University Press editorial on a practical way to meet OA mandates

[Heather Morrison]

Thanks to Mike Rossner for this editorial explaining how RUP's practices are designed to provide free access to all content after 6 months, meet the UK and US open access policy requirements, while sustaining subscription revenue through the use of the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Sharealike license (CC-BY-NC-SA). While questioning the need for specific permission for data and text mining, RUP provides language clarifying that this is indeed permitted to avoid confusion.

The RUP approach meets the criteria for the PubMedCentral "Open Access subset" after the 6-month embargo. RUP is Sherpa RomEO "blue", permitting author self-archiving of post-prints but not preprints.

Rossner presents some useful analysis to the discussion about licensing practices for open access journals. The editorial can be found here:
http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2013/03/05/jcb.201303016.full


best,

Heather Morrison, PhD
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