<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Brown, Alexander, Springer US <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alexander.Brown@springer-sbm.com" target="_blank">Alexander.Brown@springer-sbm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Springer now publishing Open Access books</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">SpringerOpen Books launched at Beijing International Book Fair<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Beijing/New York, 29 August 2012<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Springer is expanding its open access (OA) program by offering a fully open access option for books,</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I and many others do not regard this as "FULLY open access".<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">This facilitates the open distribution and the free re-use and sharing of the work for non-commercial purposes, as long as the authors/editors are properly attributed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>CC-NC is not compatible with BOAI. It is therefore, at best, "partial open access". <br>
</div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>