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Language Documentation & Conservation is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from the National Foreign Language Resource Center and the University of Hawai'i Press. The inaugural issue is now online. (Thanks to Language Log.) Also see Paul Newman's article from the inaugural issue, Copyright Essentials for Linguists:
Comment. Newman makes a good point, but leaves a false impression, in answering Question 10: "If I take an article from a free, open-access online journal, is it fair to assume that I can use the material for whatever academic purposes I want?" He correctly says that OA journals are still under copyright and that, in the absence of a CC license or equivalent, users will be limited to fair use. What he could have added is that most OA journals do use a CC license or equivalent. Hence, it usually is safe to assume that OA journals expressly permit scholarly uses beyond fair use. |