Routledge has published a pictorial summary of the results of its Open Access Survey (14 700 Routledge authors as respondents). tandfonline/page/openaccess/opensurvey Interesting results: * The most popular licence of all is Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (attribute author and source, no derivatives, only non-commercial re-use) - the one that tripleC uses: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ * Especially unpopular are commercial Creative Commons licences, the least popular licence of all is the CC-BY licence (share and adapt, even without attribution, also for commercial purposes): creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is especially interesting because DOAJ, Peter Suber and others promote that OAJs get certified with a SPARC Europe Seal - which you only get if you are a CC-BY journal See sparceurope.org/our-work/sparc-europe-seal-for-open-access-journals/ and legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/04/sparcdoaj-seal-for-oa-journals.html and legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/06-02-12.htm Well, congratulations Suber and DOAJ! You not just want to foster something that drives the commodification of OAJs - but something that at the same time according to the survey academic authors really hate! * 68% agree or strongly agree that their work may be re-used for non-commercial purposes, whereas 67% disagree or disagree strongly to commercial re-use.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:03:45 +0000
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