<div dir="ltr"><div>The OUP journal Nucleic Acids Research (which has been "Open" for many years) uses CC licences: Example:<br><br><a href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/2/524.full.pdf+html">http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/2/524.full.pdf+html</a><br></div><br>which is CC-BY and the licence is clearly displayed on the PDF . This grants rights to any reader to re-publish. (Note that some articles are CC-NC). My guess is that this is variable between journals or else simply inconsistent (The price we pay for not challenging publishers more frequently)<br>.<br><div style="font-size:9.03058px;font-family:serif">©The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.</div><div style="font-size:9.03058px;font-family:serif">This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:</div><div style="font-size:9.03058px;font-family:serif">//<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>), which</div><div style="font-size:9.03058px;font-family:serif">permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.<br><br><br></div><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Walker,Thomas J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjw@ufl.edu" target="_blank">tjw@ufl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><span style="color:#1f497d">In investigating the PDFs of articles in Journal of Medical Entomology [JME] published by Oxford University Press [OUP] I’ve found that OUP puts a time stamp on every PDF they provide to others. This makes it
impossible for authors, who have paid a fee or $2000 to $3500 for OA, to make a non-time stamped PDF openly accessible on the Web.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">This is because even though OUP has granted copyrights to OA-fee paying authors, it requires the corresponding author of each article to sign (for himself and for any other authors of the article) OUP’s “License
to Publish.” This <a href="http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/OUP_License_to_Publish.pdf" target="_blank">
License</a> states (in legal language) that OUP has the exclusive right to publish the article! That would mean that authors could not legally post their copyrighted PDFs on their homepages.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d">In a draft of a paper about this practice, I’ve argued that OUP’s time-stamped PDFs should not qualify as OA:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All the meanings of OA that I am aware of would exclude PDF files that have been altered to prevent their being an unaltered copy of the printed pages of the version of record. None of the PDF files in OUP’s
archive are unaltered. I challenge anyone to find one PDF that is a true electronic version of the printed version of that article [which is the “version of record”]. Yet PDF files of journal articles are valued
<i>because</i> they are unaltered scans of the pages of the paper version of the article.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d">But am I wrong and OUP’s PDFs meet current NIH standards for OA?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d">Tom</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">============================================<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">Thomas J. Walker
<br>
Department of Entomology & Nematology <br>
PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive) <br>
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">E-mail:
<a href="mailto:tjw@ufl.edu" target="_blank">tjw@ufl.edu</a> FAX: <a href="tel:%28352%29392-0190" value="+13523920190" target="_blank">(352)392-0190</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">Web:
<a href="http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/" target="_blank">http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">============================================<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
GOAL mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">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</div>
</div>