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  • From: Wouter Vanden Hove <wouter.vanden.hove AT pandora.be>
  • To: "cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: License for scholarly or scientific papers
  • Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:54:55 +0200

vr 12-09-2003, om 14:23 Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe wrote:
> I am new to list list, so I will first just brifly explore whether
> my issue has already been treated.
>
> We are in need of a licence suitable for researchers.
> Searching through the archives, I find no mention of a licence
> for scholarly or scientific papers.
Right. A few months ago, I wanted to propose such an "academic"
option, but I changed my mind about that.


> These are special by being
> intended for usage but not modification.
All text is intends for "usage" (to be read), but what about
translation, or repurposing to another broader audience? Or re-using
graphics? For popularizing science modfication is a great benefit.

> The present licences do not seem to fit this purpose,
> because the authors would love derivative works
> in the sense of works building on the ideas by way of reffering to them,
> but not modifications of their work like the resampling of a piece of music.
Referring to or citing a work does not constitute a derivative.


Just like the free software movement, there is a movement of librarians
and academics that want free access to the scientific literature.

The recent Bethesda Definition of "Open Access" is as follows:

An Open Access Publication[1] is one that meets the following two
conditions:

1. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a
free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and
a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the
work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in
any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to
proper attribution of authorship[2], as well as the right to
make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials,
including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a
suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately
upon initial publication in at least one online repository that
is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society,
government agency, or other well-established organization that
seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution,
interoperability, and long-term archiving (for the biomedical
sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository).

See http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm#definition


The Public Library of Science has chosen the CC-Attribution license for
the publications in their open access journals.
http://publiclibraryofscience.org/journals/license.html

The Directory of Open Access Journals at www.doaj.org
opted for a CC-share-alike license for their database.

The white papers of BOAJ are licensed CC-BY-ND
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml

So I think a special academic option is not necessary anymore.
Open Access should standardize on a default license:CC-ATT is perfect
for that. Special options rapidly make things more complex.

Even more, Martin Sabo proposed the Public Access to Science Act:
"Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work
produced pursuant to scientific research substantially funded by the
Federal Government to the extent provided in the funding agreement
entered..."
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=3



I would like to suggest The public Library of Science as featured
commoner when their first journal comes out, planned for october 2003.
http://publiclibraryofscience.org


Wouter Vanden Hove
www.opencursus.be (Flemish open course portal)
www.open-education.org (open content in education advocacy site)

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