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

[Christian Gutknecht]

Hi Heather

Sorry, I can’t follow you on that:

> 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.

The problem here is obviously not the CC-BY content, but the the non-open content of Elsevier. So forcing Elsevier also to use CC-BY for their „own“ content would enable competition for analysis tools like Scopus.

Best regards

Christian



> Am 08.07.2019 um 15:39 schrieb Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>:
> 
> 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
> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org <goal-bounces at eprints.org> on behalf of Bernie Folan <bernie.folan at oaspa.org>
> 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/ <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
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