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

Mon Jul 8 20:25:05 BST 2019

Well, I propose the following:

1. Academic Institutions should eventually stop paying for subscriptions (like Germany, UC etc)
2. Then the free money should be use to fund pure OA (through APCs, memberships, or any other well working OA business models out there)
3. Funders and Institutions should then refine and tackle the issues of Gold OA, like the cost transparency of publishing services, requirements for metadata, formats, workflows, archiving, tdm, licences (like CC-BY requirement as defined in Berlin and Budapest).

The subscription model, and hence the exclusiveness of Elsevier’s content only exists because academic institutions and especially libraries let Elsevier have this power by keep subscribing and ignoring alternatives.

Best regards
Christian

> Am 08.07.2019 um 17:38 schrieb Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>:
> 
> hi Christian,
> 
> Thank you for your contribution...
> 
> Regarding your argument: "forcing Elsevier also to use CC-BY for their „own“ content would enable competition for analysis tools like Scopus", I have some questions. Let's start with:
> 
> Are you and/or others proposing to force Elsevier to use CC-BY for their "own" content?** If so, how do you propose to do this and which of Elsevier's content?
> 
> best,
> 
> Heather Morrison
> 
> ** Side note: this is problematic, but let's leave this for now.
> 
> 
> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org <mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> <goal-bounces at eprints.org <mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>> on behalf of Christian Gutknecht <christian.gutknecht at bluewin.ch <mailto:christian.gutknecht at bluewin.ch>>
> Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 11:14 AM
> To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
> Subject: Re: [GOAL] Results of OA article data collection from OASPA members
>  
> Attention : courriel externe | external email
> 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 <mailto: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 <http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/>
>> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca <mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>
>> https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706 <https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706>
>> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org <mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> <goal-bounces at eprints.org <mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>> on behalf of Bernie Folan <bernie.folan at oaspa.org <mailto: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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