[GOAL] Re: Can time-stamped PDF's qualify as OA?

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Following up,
I have checked the reuse permissions on OUP's Nucleic Acids Research (see
previous mail) and they are charging large prices for re-use of CC-BY
articles (e.g. 400 USD for use in an academic course pack for 100 students.

I hope this is a "glitch" (though I am getting very very tired of publisher
glitches in their favour). If it is deliberate then although it is possibly
legal - they can argue that a consumer can ignore their reprint permission
charges - it is morally and ethically unacceptable.

I continue to point out such unacceptable practices. They will continue
until the community also regards them as unacceptable and takes decisive
action against unacceptable publishers.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Paul Royster <proyster2 at unl.edu> wrote:

> Dear Dr Walker,
>
>
>
> I infer that you are talking about the stamp: “Downloaded from
> http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/ by guest on February 8, 2016” or
> equivalent that OUP pastes on every PDF it sends out? In practice, that
> stamp can be removed by Adobe Acrobat, though it takes a bit of practice
> and a delicate touch. (I won’t speak to whether such removal is within the
> bounds of any specific license agreement.) Those time stamps are an ugly
> imposition marring the pages of many content sources, including JSTOR,
> Hathi Trust, and others, and I deplore them. They remind me of dogs marking
> their territories.
>
>
>
> Oxford’s website for the JME says <
> http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/charges-licenses-and-self-archiving.html>
> that authors paying for Open Access under Oxford Open have a choice of
> CC-BY-NC (no commercial re-use) or CC-BY-NC-ND (no commercial, no
> derivatives) licenses. Under either of these, authors (who pay) have
> immediate license to post the Oxford (or ESA) pdf versions in their
> institutional repositories (or any other non-commercial uses). (Whether
> CC-BY-NC counts as “real” OA is a matter for discussion with the
> purists—most people would say it is, some more extreme advocates would not.
> It’s not clear to me whether it meets the strict BOAI standard or not; or
> even if that matters.)
>
>
>
> Authors who do not pay for Oxford Open still “may upload their *accepted
> manuscript PDF* to an institutional and/or centrally organized
> repository, provided that public availability is delayed until *12 months
> after first online publication *in the journal.” <
> http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/access-purchase/rights-and-permissions/self-archiving-policyb.html
> > So authors may still take the “Green OA” route—though whether Green OA
> counts as “real” OA is another murky or muddled question for some.
>
>
>
> Your article in *Learned Publishing *(2002)*15*, 279–284 <
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1087/095315102760319242/abstract > [though
> ironically not OA] made a clear and bold appeal for immediate free web
> access. I wish we had all been sooner to demand this of publishers and
> societies.
>
>
>
> It is unfortunate the ESA has cast its lot with OUP. I hope its members
> will realize the impact and reconsider the arrangement. Meanwhile, we do a
> lot of entomology for our repository (including *Insecta Mundi*), and I
> would be happy to help you get your JME papers online, if you wish to
> contact me off-list. Best regards.
>
>
>
> Paul Royster
>
> Coordinator of Scholarly Communications
>
> University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries
>
> proyster at unl.edu
>
> http://digitalcommons.unl.edu
>
>
>
> *From:* goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Walker,Thomas J
> *Sent:* Monday, February 8, 2016 7:04 AM
> *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org>
> *Subject:* [GOAL] Can time-stamped PDF's qualify as OA?
>
>
>
> In investigating the PDFs of articles in Journal of Medical Entomology
> [JME] published by Oxford University Press [OUP] I’ve found that OUP puts a
> time stamp on every PDF they provide to others.  This makes it impossible
> for authors, who have paid a fee or $2000 to $3500 for OA, to make a
> non-time stamped PDF openly accessible on the Web.
>
>
>
> This is because even though OUP has granted copyrights to OA-fee paying
> authors, it requires the corresponding author of each article to sign (for
> himself and for any other authors of the article) OUP’s “License to
> Publish.”  This License
> <http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/OUP_License_to_Publish.pdf> states
> (in legal language) that OUP has the exclusive right to publish the
> article!  That would mean that authors could not legally post their
> copyrighted PDFs on their homepages.
>
>
>
> In a draft of a paper about this practice, I’ve argued that OUP’s
> time-stamped PDFs should not qualify as OA:
>
>
>
> All the meanings of OA that I am aware of would exclude PDF files that
> have been altered to prevent their being an unaltered copy of the printed
> pages of the version of record.  None of the PDF files in OUP’s archive are
> unaltered.  I challenge anyone to find one PDF that is a true electronic
> version of the printed version of that article [which is the “version of
> record”].   Yet PDF files of journal articles are valued *because* they
> are unaltered scans of the pages of the paper version of the article.
>
>
>
> But am I wrong and OUP’s PDFs meet current NIH standards for OA?
>
>
>
> Tom
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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