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This from a recent item in Nature ...<br>
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"RCUK says that the licence problem is compounded by researchers not understanding which licence they need to use to comply with the open-access policy, and by publishers offering a range of ‘open’ licences. (Since January, all 18 open-access journals owned
by Nature Publishing Group have switched to using the fully liberal CC-BY 4.0 licence as a default, and to charging a flat fee.)"<br>
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"The RCUK review did not have the remit to question whether RCUK should continue to hand out money for gold open-access publishing. But with a new UK government in the offing and the country looking increasingly isolated in its gold-leaning stance, there must
be a concern that the agency might end up scrapping its gold preference. Last year, four influential UK university-funding bodies announced a green open-access policy that will further steer academics towards delayed public archiving of manuscripts."<br>
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More at: <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/all-that-glitters-1.17266?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150409" target="_blank">
http://www.nature.com/news/all-that-glitters-1.17266?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150409</a>
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Dana L. Roth<br>
Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32<br>
1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125<br>
626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540<br>
dzrlib@library.caltech.edu<br>
http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm<br>
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