A round-the-houses route to a question on licensing...
On 9 May 2007, at 13:01, Anja Kersting wrote:
> Open access literature is defined as free of charge for users
> providing online access to digital scholarly material worldwide.
> Since the <http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/
> berlindeclaration.html>Berlin Declaration on Open Access...
This post prompted me to look up the open-access.net definition of
Open Access - the original posting has a colloquial definition, the
site itself quotes the BOAI (see the section "Was bedeutet Open
Access"). However, going back to the Berlin Declaration mentioned
above I realise (several years after the event) that its first
criterion for open access includes the need to allow others to "make
and distribute derivative works".
EPrints now supports a range of licenses under which content can be
made available, but in demoing this in various places around the
world I have realised that (of course) as an author/researcher it
would be quite wrong to allow individuals to make derivative copies
of my papers. Hence I always choose the CC No-Derivatives license
variation in the demos. The OpenDOAR Policy Generation tool includes
as part of its optimum data licensing options the phrase "the content
is not changed in any way", which seems to be what I want.
There's a Berlin 5 conference in September - should we ask them to
update the declaration? (The conference is appropriately subtitled
"Consequences on Knowledge Dissemination")
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Les
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