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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Sally Morris wrote :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>> </span><span lang=EN-CA>Playing devil's advocate: aren't people (arguably) paying for the service<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>> provided in gathering together the articles in which they might be interested<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>> in an easily accessible/searchable form?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>This makes sense if someone pays for a subscription to a service, like those provided by aggregators, which offers an overall added value. Such databases may be viewed as compilations, which are in fact derivative works (see my previous posts).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>The examples we discussed here used the pay-per-view model, which is different in my opinion: they ask a fee for individual works freely available elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>As to my statement that “</span><span lang=EN-CA>putting a CC-BY Work behind a paywall is almost certainly dishonest”, well... I would hesitate to call the British Library “dishonest”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>More an example of overview, which a public organization should since have corrected (as P. Murray-Rust points out, it was 5 years ago). It shouldn’t be difficult to spot the (machine-readable) CC licenses (I don’t know how hybrid manage this on an article-by-article basis), or to put a link to the article and suggest that the reader check for the possibility of open access.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Anyway, these days, people should now know better than pull their credit card before checking the title in Google Scholar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Marc Couture<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>