Why Full Open Access Matters

Abstract

This perspective explains the mechanics of copyright and scholarly publishing and warns authors who support open-access publishing about a new pseudo open-access publishing model in which authors pay but publishers still retain commercial reuse rights.

Barriers to Open Access Publishing: Views from the Library Literature

“…In 2009, the estimate number of works with a Creative Commons licenses was 350 million [40]. However, this is a legal tool, not a law, and it is not always clear how to apply the licenses to specific situations and some argue it can be manipulated to clash with open access goals [41,42]. Therefore, as the LIS community endeavors to understand the issues, it follows that there would be an increase in the extent of articles about legal framework topics in the literature.…”

Open Access: A State of the Art

“…This will make interdisciplinary work easier and productive. Reuse, due to open licenses, the ''possibility to translate, combine, analyze, adapt, and preserve the scientific material'' is easier and will lead to new outcomes (Carroll 2011).…”

Openness and archaeology's information ecosystem

“…In that way, Open Access venues, including commercial enterprises, can sustainably publish high quality outputs. Paying for dissemination, quality improvement, and archiving services upfront rather than setting up paywalls and intellectual property barriers better aligns financial sustainability means toward public benefit ends (Carroll 2011).…”