[GOAL] How much of the content in open repositories is able to meet the definition of open access?

[Paul THIRION]

But don't you think the most important and the most urgent is free access ?


Le 23/01/17 à 10:41, Richard Poynder a écrit :
>
> OA advocates maintain that the formative definition of open access 
> agreed at the meeting that led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative 
> means that only papers with a CC BY licence attached can be described 
> as open access. And yet millions of papers in open repositories are 
> not available with a CC BY licence.
>
> Take, for instance, PubMed Central, which currently has 4.2 million 
> documents deposited in it. A recent search shows that only 24% of the 
> non-historical documents in PMC have a CC BY licence, and so 76% of 
> the content cannot be described as open access.
>
> The good news is that the CC BY percentage in PMC is growing over 
> time. Nevertheless, that it has still only reached 24% a decade after 
> the NIH Public Access policy came into effect suggests that the OA 
> movement still has a way to go if it is to live up to the BOAI 
> definition.
>
> More here: 
> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-nih-public-access-policy-triumph-of.html
>
> Richard Poynder
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