On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, [identity deleted] wrote:
> Do you know about/have a view on this?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> Does anyone have any involvement with Science Commons? - they are
> exploring the idea of extending Creative Commons idea of flexible
> copyright to scientific work:
> http://creativecommons.org/
> http://science.creativecommons.org/
A CC license is definitely always preferable, if/when it can be
successfully negotiated; but it is equally definitely *not* a prerequisite
for OA, and should not be described as such (particularly with 92%
of journals already green on self-archiving!). To hold out needlessly
for CC is simply to put another needless retardant on 100% OA, which is
already long, long overdue.
Please see:
Re: "Free Access vs. Open Access"
On the Deep Disanalogy
Between Text and Software and
Between Text and Data
Insofar as Free/Open Access is Concerned
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2967.html
and
"Apercus of WOS Meeting: Making Ends Meet in the Creative Commons"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3797.html
Re: "Evolving Publisher Copyright Policies On Self-Archiving"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4128.html
Re: "Green, Gold, Elsevier, Springer"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4005.html
"The Creative Commons License is of course desirable and welcome,
if and when it can be successfully agreed between author and
publisher. But it definitely is not a necessary condition for
self-archiving, and to imply that it is, and to abstain from
self-archiving until/unless a CC License is successfully agreed
is unnecessary, irrational, and would only serve to further
delay the 100% OA that is already fully within reach."
Stevan Harnad
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Received on Thu Nov 25 2004 - 22:28:02 GMT