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

[Couture Marc]

Hi all,

Just to be clear, my position on the basic issue here.

I certainly qualify as an OA advocate, and as such :

- I don't equate OA with CC BY (or any CC license); in fact, I'm a little bit tired of discussions about what "being OA" means.

- I work to help increase the proportion of gratis OA, still much too low.

- I try to convince my colleagues that CC BY is the best way to disseminate scientific/scholarly works and make them useful.

I favour CC BY over the restricted versions (mainly -NC) because I find the arguments about potentially unwanted or devious uses far less compelling than those about the advantages of unrestricted uses and the drawbacks of restrictions that can be much more stringent than they seem at first glance.

Like Stevan said, OA advocates are indeed a plurality. The opposite would bother me.

Marc Couture


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