<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Richard Poynder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.poynder@cantab.net" target="_blank">richard.poynder@cantab.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-2105917249713157299WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">OA advocates maintain that the formative definition of open access agreed at the meeting that led to the Budapest Open Access Initiative means that only papers with a CC BY licence attached can be described as open access. And yet millions of papers in open repositories are not available with a CC BY licence.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OA advocates are a plurality, not a monolith.</div><div><br></div><div>No, OA advocates do not agree that only CC-BY = OA. </div><div><br></div><div>There are two "shades" of OA:</div><div><br></div><div>"Gratis OA" = free access</div><div>"Libre OA" = CC-BY</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-2105917249713157299WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> Take, for instance, PubMed Central, which currently has 4.2 million documents deposited in it. A recent search shows that only 24% of the non-historical documents in PMC have a CC BY licence, and so 76% of the content cannot be described as open access.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The right measure of proportion OA for PMC (or any repository) is the percent that is Gratis *or* Libre OA, not just the percent that is CC-BY. (It also matter *when* it is deposited: immediately or a year or more after publication.)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-2105917249713157299WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> The good news is that the CC BY percentage in PMC is growing over time. Nevertheless, that it has still only reached 24% a decade after the NIH Public Access policy came into effect suggests that the OA movement still has a way to go if it is to live up to the BOAI definition.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The figures are insufficient. Percent OA in PMC does not even represent percent OA in biomedicine, in the US or globally, let alone in all fields. And PMC, as Richard notes, is largely publisher-deposited, which means it's For-Fee Fool's Gold OA rather than author-deposited For-Free Green OA.</div><div><br></div><div>That the percentage OA is growing globally with time is inevitable, as the old researchers are retiring with time, and the young researchers have more sense. </div><div><br></div><div>The goal, however, is OA, not "living up to the BOAI definition."</div><div><br></div><div>And the growth rate is still absurdly slow, compared to what it could and ought to be (and have been).</div><div><br></div><div>S.H.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-2105917249713157299WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> More here: <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-nih-public-access-policy-triumph-of.html" target="_blank">http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/<wbr>2017/01/the-nih-public-access-<wbr>policy-triumph-of.html</a></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Richard Poynder <u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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