[GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

[Heather Morrison]

In related news: Elsevier's toll access service Scopus now includes 5,393 open access journals. This is helpful to illustrate and analyze some of the implications of blanket downstream commercial re-use (e.g. CC-BY):

Extra profit for Elsevier: no need to pay CC-BY journals, and open licensing reduces their costs for clarifying permissions.

Increase in monopoly power for Elsevier: anyone can use the CC licensed material to create a competitor to Scopus, however only Elsevier can use their copyrighted work. CC-BY reduces the likelihood of successful competition.

Development of underdevelopment: authors from poor countries get the benefit of increased exposure with OA, but are locked out of the next generation of services built on this such as Scopus. CC-BY is not sufficient to achieve the vision of sharing the knowledge of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich; this license facilitates one-way sharing of the poor with the rich, as it lacks a means of ensuring reciprocity. (CC-BY-SA does not ensure reciprocity either; it means use the same license for derivatives, not share like I have. A re-used OA article with CC-BY-SA can be re-used in a TA environment).

I recommend against the use of licenses allowing blanket commercial re-use to authors, journals, OA advocates and policy-makers.

best,

Dr. Heather Morrison
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa
Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project
sustainingknowledgecommons.org
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706
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Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 7:01:54 AM
To: Bernie Folan
Subject: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members

Attention : courriel externe | external email

***With apologies for cross posting ***

OASPA has published a new blog post summarising the results of a recent OA article data collection exercise carried out with input from OASPA members.

You can find the post at https://oaspa.org/growth-continues-for-oaspa-member-oa-content/

Some highlights:

  *   Total growth in output by OASPA members is 23%. This does include some new contributors but on the whole, they were small numbers so don't count much towards the total.
  *   Growth in CC BY articles published in fully OA journals is 18% so this is slightly higher than it has done for the past 5 years.
  *   Over a quarter of a million CC BY articles were published by OASPA members in fully OA journals last year.

Do feel free to share within your networks.

Best wishes,
Bernie


Bernie Folan
Events and Communications Coordinator, OASPA
bernie.folan at oaspa.org<mailto:bernie.folan at oaspa.org>
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