We have...introduced the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Derivative Works licence for the vast majority of the journals participating in our hybrid program (with those not yet using it being due only to pending society approval). We make it clear to authors in the licence that reuse of the online content when published is subject to this Creative Commons licence. See [this article from Bioinformatics] for an example.
Admittedly, the machine readable element is yet to go live but this is due to happen in the very near future. We continually review our publication rights policies for all of our journals and aim to provide authors with as much information as possible so that they are aware of their rights without having to keep checking each time whether or not permission is required.
Comment. I believe that Springer and Oxford are the only publishers of hybrid OA journals to use CC licenses for participating articles. I hope that other hybrid journal publishers will follow suit.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/25/2006 10:50:00 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.
