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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Peter Murray-Rust’s posting about $400 study packs based on articles published with CC-BY rights statements opened my eyes to a part of OUP/ESA’s business plan
I had missed—the use of time-stamped PDFs to make money from students of the teachers who use study packs that include articles by ESA authors in any of ESA’s four principal journals. OUP has slapped time stamps and notices of an ESA copyright on all articles
in the four journals going back to 1908 for Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. and J. Econ. Ent, and to 1972 and 1965 for J. Med. Ent. and Envir. Ent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This should be illegal, as well as ethically and morally unacceptable. This is because ESA has no valid claim of copyright to articles published in its journals
before it started requiring authors to sign over their copyrights to ESA in 1978. Furthermore, JME, for its entire run of being published by Honolulu’s Bishop Museum (1964-1986), never required authors to sign copyright releases. The handover of J. Med.
Ent. to ESA resulted in the run from 1987-date being copyrighted by ESA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The magnitude of the deception of OUP claiming an ESA copyright on all articles that ever appeared in ESA’s four journals is that of ESA’s
<b>271</b> “journal-years” of publication (through 2015 and including the first 22 journal-years of JME), ESA could fairly claim copyright to only
<b>103</b> (<b>103/271=38%</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That ought to be illegal, but is it? (The evidence is clear cut and online.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tom <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">====================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thomas J. Walker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Department of Entomology & Nematology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">E-mail: tjw@ufl.edu Phone: 352-273-3920<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Web: http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Murray-Rust<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 08, 2016 2:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Re: Can time-stamped PDF's qualify as OA?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Following up,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I have checked the reuse permissions on OUP's Nucleic Acids Research (see previous mail) and they are charging large prices for re-use of CC-BY articles (e.g. 400 USD for use in an academic course pack for 100
students.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I hope this is a "glitch" (though I am getting very very tired of publisher glitches in their favour). If it is deliberate then although it is possibly legal - they can argue that a consumer can ignore their
reprint permission charges - it is morally and ethically unacceptable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I continue to point out such unacceptable practices. They will continue until the community also regards them as unacceptable and takes decisive action against unacceptable publishers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Paul Royster <<a href="mailto:proyster2@unl.edu" target="_blank">proyster2@unl.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear Dr Walker,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I infer that you are talking about the stamp: “<span style="font-size:8.0pt">Downloaded from
</span><a href="http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> by guest on February 8, 2016”
</span>or equivalent that OUP pastes on every PDF it sends out? In practice, that stamp can be removed by Adobe Acrobat, though it takes a bit of practice and a delicate touch. (I won’t speak to whether such removal is within the bounds of any specific license
agreement.) Those time stamps are an ugly imposition marring the pages of many content sources, including JSTOR, Hathi Trust, and others, and I deplore them. They remind me of dogs marking their territories.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Oxford’s website for the JME says
<span style="color:#1F497D"><</span> <a href="http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/charges-licenses-and-self-archiving.html" target="_blank">
http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/charges-licenses-and-self-archiving.html</a><span style="color:#1F497D">>
</span>that authors paying for Open Access under Oxford Open have a choice of CC-BY-NC (no commercial re-use) or CC-BY-NC-ND (no commercial, no derivatives) licenses. Under either of these, authors (who pay) have immediate license to post the Oxford (or ESA)
pdf versions in their institutional repositories (or any other non-commercial uses). (Whether CC-BY-NC counts as “real” OA is a matter for discussion with the purists—most people would say it is, some more extreme advocates would not. It’s not clear to me
whether it meets the strict BOAI standard or not; or even if that matters.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Authors who do not pay for Oxford Open still “may upload their
<u>accepted manuscript PDF</u> to an institutional and/or centrally organized repository, provided that public availability is delayed until
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">12 months after first online publication
</span></strong>in the journal.” < <a href="http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/access-purchase/rights-and-permissions/self-archiving-policyb.html" target="_blank">
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/access-purchase/rights-and-permissions/self-archiving-policyb.html</a> > So authors may still take the “Green OA” route—though whether Green OA counts as “real” OA is another murky or muddled question for some.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Your article in
</span><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:RealpageGDY4-Italic">Learned Publishing
</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:RealpageGDY4">(2002)</span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:RealpageGDY4-Bold">15</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:RealpageGDY4">, 279–284</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> <</span>
<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1087/095315102760319242/abstract" target="_blank">
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1087/095315102760319242/abstract</a><span style="color:#1F497D"> >
</span>[though ironically not OA] made a clear and bold appeal for immediate free web access. I wish we had all been sooner to demand this of publishers and societies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">It is unfortunate the ESA has cast its lot with OUP. I hope its members will realize the impact and reconsider the arrangement. Meanwhile, we do a lot of entomology for our repository
(including <i>Insecta Mundi</i>), and I would be happy to help you get your JME papers online, if you wish to contact me off-list. Best regards.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Paul Royster</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Coordinator of Scholarly Communications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="mailto:proyster@unl.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">proyster@unl.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://digitalcommons.unl.edu</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D">
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<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Walker,Thomas J<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 8, 2016 7:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org" target="_blank">goal@eprints.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Can time-stamped PDF's qualify as OA?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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 </span>
<a href="http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/OUP_License_to_Publish.pdf" target="_blank">License</a><span style="color:#1F497D"> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">But am I wrong and OUP’s PDFs meet current NIH standards for OA?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Tom</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Thomas J. Walker
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Department of Entomology & Nematology <br>
PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive) <br>
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">E-mail:
</span><a href="mailto:tjw@ufl.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">tjw@ufl.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"> FAX:
</span><a href="tel:%28352%29392-0190" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">(352)392-0190</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Web:
</span><a href="http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">============================================</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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