Unfortunately only the publishers can add the license status to DOAJ (personal mail by Anna-Lena Johansson, May 21, 2008). This decision isn't appropriate. None of the many BioMedCentral CC-BY journals is tagged with CC-BY in DOAJ.
According to my mantra make all research results CC-BY I recommend that all Open Access journals should apply for the SPARC Europe OA seal.
If a journal publisher don't want CC-BY it should consider another CC license.
But anyway publishers should make the license and self-archiving status of the journal clear. Here are some tips. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 6/08/2008 01:09:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
