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

[Richard Poynder]

Hi Marc,

You say:

"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 hear you, but I think the key point here is that OA advocates (perhaps
not you, but OA advocates) are successfully convincing a growing number of
research funders (e.g. Wellcome Trust, RCUK, Ford Foundation, Hewlett
Foundation, Gates Foundation etc.) that CC BY is the only acceptable form
of open access.

So however tired you and Stevan might be of discussing it, I believe there
are important implications and consequences flowing from that.

Richard Poynder



On 23 January 2017 at 16:31, Couture Marc <marc.couture at teluq.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> Just to be clear, my position on the basic issue here.
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> I certainly qualify as an OA advocate, and as such :
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> - 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.
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> - I work to help increase the proportion of gratis OA, still much too low.
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> - I try to convince my colleagues that CC BY is the best way to
> disseminate scientific/scholarly works and make them useful.
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> 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.
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> Like Stevan said, OA advocates are indeed a plurality. The opposite would
> bother me.
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> Marc Couture
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