[GOAL] Re: Scopus and gold OA: open2closed, is this what we want?

[Uhlir, Paul]

Also, in this regard it should be noted that the US federal government places all the information that is directly produced in the scope of its activities in the public domain, exempting its works from copyright (under section 105 of the 1977 Copyright Act). That is the equivalent of the CC0 license. There is not even a requirement of attribution to USG works, once lawfully accessed and may be reused for any purpose.


-          Paul

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Eric F. Van de Velde
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 12:07 PM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scopus and gold OA: open2closed, is this what we want?

Heather:
Open Access was never about eliminating any possibility to make money of scholarly publications.

When it came to pricing of journals, it was at most to provide some balance: if the author-formatted version is available for free, you are still welcome to pay for the published version on the basis of what publishers add to the value of the paper.

Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and others are providing services that may save you time. It is up to the customer to decide how much their time is worth.

Of course, much of the pricing flexibility of scholarly publishers and service providers comes from the fact that most of their customers do not pay for the service themselves. Their libraries do. A standard principle agent problem...
--Eric.


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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) <j.bosman at uu.nl<mailto:j.bosman at uu.nl>> wrote:
Heather,

The share of OA papers is probably way lower, because those 14% OA journals have on average much less volumes indexed in Scopus than the paywall journals. I wouldn't be surprised if it was below 5%.

But was is more important, no one buys Scopus for the (abstract) content. Libraries license Scopus for its search functionality, citation links, author disambiguation, indexing terms, advanced search capabilities, affiliation histories, book chapter indexing etc etc.

Access to the abstracts is in most cases free at the publisher platforms, no matter whether it concerns OA journals or paywalled journals.

So I think it would not be fair to say Scopus is making big money out of Open Access content the way you do.

Best,
Jeroen



Op 13 okt. 2014 om 17:11 heeft "Heather Morrison" <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca<mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>> het volgende geschreven:

> Elsevier's for-pay Scopus service includes "More than 20,000 peer-reviewed journals, including 2,800 gold open access journals" from: http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/scopus/content-overview
>
> 14% of the journal content for this commercial toll access service comes from gold OA.
>
> When OA advocates insist on granting blanket commercial rights downstream, is this the kind of future for scholarly communication that is envisaged, one that takes free content licensed CC-BY or CC-BY-SA and locks it up in service packages for sale for those who can pay?
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> One of the visions of the original Budapest Open Access Initiative is that OA will  "share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich". I argue that if the poor are convinced or coerced to give away their work for blanket commercial rights downstream and the result is services like Scopus, this is a much more straightforward sharing of the poor with the rich. A researcher in a developing country giving away their work as CC-BY gets the benefit of wider dissemination of their own work, but may be shut out of services like Scopus, the next generation of tools designed to advance research.
> BOAI: http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read
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> Thanks very much to Elsevier, Scopus, and participating gold OA publishers for a great example of the downside of granting blanket commercial rights downstream.
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> best,
>
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