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Creative Commons for Academic Publishers
Jessica CoatesProject Manager
Creative Commons ClinicSeptember 2008
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CRICOS No. 00213J
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Aims to make creative material more useable by providing free licences
that creators can use to give certain permissions in advance
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CC Myths
CC is not:
• Anti-copyright – just another rights management tool for creators
• The public domain – just giving certain permission in advance
• Anti-commercial – can charge for first use, commercial uses, “premium” service, or embed advertising
• Right for every situation – entirely voluntary, and won’t be best solution for all creators
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Attribution-ShareAlikeAttribution
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Attribution-Noncommercial
Attribution-NoDerivatives
Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives
Benefits
• Increased citations
• Increased profile
• Avoid failures in existing subscription market as library budgets go down
• Respond to challenges to small journals posed by consortium and bundled purchasing
• Align with authors’ and users’ expectations
• Public benefits – greater access to knowledge etc
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Business models
• ‘gold’ – charge researchers for publication (cost usually rolled into grant)
• ‘premium services’ – charge subscription for value-added features eg commissioned material, literature reviews
• combined offline and online publication
• advertising, sponsorships, partnerships, grants
• selling to third party aggregators
• ‘delayed’ open access – eg make material freely available after 6 months
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PLoS• 7 journals – main focus = life sciences
• All material available online immediately at no charge under a CC Attribution licence - no restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use
• Strict peer review and editorial policies
• Uses ‘gold’ business model - charges academic for publication for cost recovery – fee lowered/waived if necessary
• V high citation ranking eg PLoS Biology has a Thomson Scientific Impact Factor of 13.9
• Supports open access as ‘efficient, effective and equitable’
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The amount of attention that our article received was almost overwhelming. Publication in PLoS Medicine has played a prominent role in my emerging academic career." - Jeffrey Lacasse
Biomed Central• Publishes 193 journals – all articles available free and immediately under
Creative Commons Attribution.
• Stringent peer reviewed, based on open and closed review models
• High Thomson Journal Impact Factors (eg Genome Biology = 6.59)
• Uses combined business model – charges for publication (some journals); includes advertising on main site; and charges subscription fee for additional products and services (eg commissioned content, literature evaluations, hosted repository)
• Provides free tools to help others launch open access journals.
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“The traditional subscription-based model is also becoming increasingly unsustainable, as increasing amounts of research is being published whilst library budgets remain static." – Biomed Central
Further information
Public Library of Science - http://www.plos.org/about/faq.html
Biomed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/faq
Guide to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-Based
Journal to Open Access -
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml
Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access
Journal - http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml
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Creative Commons Colombiaco.creativecommons.org/
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