[sc-announce] SPARC Europe and DOAJ launch the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals -- Science Commons blog
Donna Wentworth
dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Fri Apr 25 12:36:39 EDT 2008
SPARC Europe and DOAJ launch the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals
April 25th, 2008<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/04/25/sparc-europe-and-doaj-launch-the-sparc-europe-seal-for-open-access-journals/>by
dwentworth
SPARC Europe <http://www.sparceurope.org/> and the Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ <http://www.doaj.org/>) have announced the launch of the
SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals.
The seal is aimed at increasing the usefulness and "discoverability" of open
access (OA <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm>) journals,
clarifying the kinds of reuses that are allowed and using metadata to make
the content easier to find. To qualify for the seal, a journal must use the
Creative Commons By (CC-BY <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>)
license and provide metadata for all their articles to the DOAJ, which will
then make the metadata OAI <http://www.openarchives.org/>-compliant. From
the media release <http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=080423>:
"Legal certainty is essential to the emergence of an internet that supports
research. The proliferation of license terms forces researchers to act like
lawyers, and slows innovative educational and scientific uses of the
scholarly canon," said John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons.
"Using a seal to reward the journals who choose to adopt policies that
ensure users' rights to innovate is a great idea. It builds on a culture of
trust rather than a culture of control, and it will make it easy to find the
open access journals with the best policies."
Bravo to SPARC Europe and DOAJ for setting a standard that can help spur
innovation by expanding the zones of legal certainty for research.
You can find additional notes and
commentary<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2008/04/sparcdoaj-seal-for-oa-journals.html>by
Peter Suber @ Open
Access News <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html>.
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Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
dwentworth at creativecommons.org <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
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