...(19) Should the scientific and research community enter into licensing schemes with publishers in order to increase access to works for teaching or research purposes? Are there examples of successful licensing schemes enabling online use of works for teaching or research purposes?...
DRIVER’s mission is to expand its content base with high quality Open Access research output, including textual research papers and other scholarly publications. The DRIVER consortium therefore sees a number of reasons why the scientific and research community should aim to increase their influence on the development and adoption of alternative licensing schemes.
Over the last years several licensing schemes have been developed which provide free access to copyrighted work for readers....
DRIVER recommends European harmonization and promotion of the above licenses (MIT, NIH, CC, SURF,...) in order to raise awareness about the rights of the author and strengthen his position further....
DRIVER only endorses [hybrid OA journal] models when there is an obvious pay-off on the side of the [reduced] subscription costs. A “hybrid model”, where article processing fees would be paid on top of subscription fees, is not acceptable....
One forward-looking result of the [PEER study] project may be to establish a consistent interface between an increasing number of publishers and repositories. This would enable licensing schemes between publishers and institutions which include immediate or embargoed deposit in institutional repositories.
A strong connection between current research information systems (CRIS) and the deposit of peer reviewed manuscripts in repositories would also facilitate reporting and evaluation procedures as it provides access to the works and their metadata as well as usage and citation information. Incentives in the form of a greater citation impact and other bibliometric advantages for Open Access publications could be rewarded via the connection between IRs and CRIS systems, as voluntary deposit (without mandates or policies) is not scalable.
On October 20th, the European Commission announced the start of an Open Access Pilot for research funded in the FP7 programme, in which researchers from different disciplines are presented with the clause of mandatory self-archiving. DRIVER fully endorses this initiative and, since it mandates self-archiving and further diffuses the development of repositories. DRIVER could even take up a role as a ‘motor’ for implementation, also through strategic relations with SPARC....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2008 12:16:00 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.
