On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Lucie Burgess < [email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Peter, > > I wanted to respond to the point you made that: > > *'So the moral is that University libraries do not fight to preserve the > public domain or CC-BY*. In a sad extension of this many libraries > (including the British Library - whom I FOI'ed) will take the easy way and > apply charges for everything because it is too difficult to determine > whether anything is in the public domain or CC-BY*. Thus the BL charges > people to read my Open Access papers online, and 120-year old chemical > publications are regarded as belonging to the journal (and hence > chargeable) because they can't prove the authors are dead.**’* > > In my experience, it is really not the case that University libraries do > not fight to preserve the public domain. > I am primarily talking about material that is digital and has been published electronically under a liberal licence (CC-BY or CC0 or public domain). And the emphasis on this list is scholarly publication, particularly in journals [... digitisation snipped] > I can’t comment on the British Library access to your papers because I > don’t know the details, but I will forward your query to colleagues at the > British Library to respond to. > I blogged this 6 years ago in several posts - see https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2010/05/08/my-current-freedom-of-information-foi-requests/ for a start. > > Thanks and kind regards, > Lucie > > > > Lucie Burgess > Associate Director for Digital Libraries > Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford > Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford > Senior Research Fellow, Hertford College > Tel: +44 (0)1865 277104 > +44 (0)7725 842619 > Twitter @LucieCBurgess > LinkedIn LucieCBurgess > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-7196 > Get ready for the REF – Act on Acceptance > <http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/home-2/act-on-acceptance/> > > > > > From: Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected] > > > Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2016 15:57 > To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected]> > Subject: [GOAL] Re: Can time-stamped PDF's qualify as OA? > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Walker,Thomas J <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Peter Murray-Rust’s posting about $400 study packs based on articles >> published with CC-BY rights statements opened my eyes to a part of >> OUP/ESA’s business plan I had missed—the use of time-stamped PDFs to make >> money from students of the teachers who use study packs that include >> articles by ESA authors in any of ESA’s four principal journals. OUP has >> slapped time stamps and notices of an ESA copyright on all articles in the >> four journals going back to 1908 for Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. and J. Econ. >> Ent, and to 1972 and 1965 for J. Med. Ent. and Envir. Ent. >> >> >> >> This should be illegal, as well as ethically and morally unacceptable. >> > > It's called Copyfraud by many, including me. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud gives a good overview. It's a > "victimless crime" for Universities and their libraries, because the > victims are not the Universities but hoi polloi outside the ivory towers. > The people who suffer are artists, naturalists, policy makers, SMEs, > doctors, politicians, and curious minds. > > >> This is because ESA has no valid claim of copyright to articles published >> in its journals before it started requiring authors to sign over their >> copyrights to ESA in 1978. Furthermore, JME, for its entire run of being >> published by Honolulu’s Bishop Museum (1964-1986), never required authors >> to sign copyright releases. The handover of J. Med. Ent. to ESA resulted >> in the run from 1987-date being copyrighted by ESA. >> >> The magnitude of the deception of OUP claiming an ESA copyright on all >> articles that ever appeared in ESA’s four journals is that of ESA’s *271* >> “journal-years” of publication (through 2015 and including the first 22 >> journal-years of JME), ESA could fairly claim copyright to only *103* ( >> *103/271=38%*). >> >> >> >> That ought to be illegal, but is it? (The evidence is clear cut and >> online.) >> > > I suffered from this. Springer took all the images published in its > journals and stamped COPYRIGHT SPRINGER over all of them and offered them > for sale at 60 USD. This included all my publications in BioMedCentral, a > CC-BY Open Access journal. I raised this on my blog as "Springergate", see > https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/06/06/springergate-springerimages-for-today/ > and preceding/subsequent articles. > I publicized this - was dismissed by Springer first of all and then it was > a "computer glitch" . No one in academia cared. > However Wikimedia cared greatly, because their CC-BY-SA images had also > been universally stamped as Springer property. They made a considerable > fuss, rightly (explore the blog). > The Editor of BMC then spent time correcting it (it wasn't his fault, it > was SpringerImages). > > So the moral is that University libraries do not fight to preserve the > public domain or CC-BY*. In a sad extension of this many libraries > (including the British Library - whom I FOI'ed) will take the easy way and > apply charges for everything because it is too difficult to determine > whether anything is in the public domain or CC-BY*. Thus the BL charges > people to read my Open Access papers online, and 120-year old chemical > publications are regarded as belonging to the journal (and hence > chargeable) because they can't prove the authors are dead. > > P. > > > >> >> >> Tom >> >> ==================================== >> >> Thomas J. Walker >> >> Department of Entomology & Nematology >> >> PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive) >> >> University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620 >> >> E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 352-273-3920 >> >> Web: http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ >> >> ==================================== >> >> >> >> > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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