/pmr/2008/05/05/some-test-cases-for-strongoaweakoa/ A Scientist and the Web Tue, 06 May 2008 22:28:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 /pmr/2008/05/05/some-test-cases-for-strongoaweakoa/#comment-1638 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:28:31 +0000 http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1079#comment-1638 This seems to be a reasonable set of categories. It has the advantage that it does not have any pejorative connotations associated with the labels, but neither does it hide the important differences between full OA and permission reduced OA (which is completely hidden, if you call both strong). Even though as a question of principle it is not clear why allowing educational use (w/o other third party use) should be included in (3) and not together with non-commercial third party use in general under (2), I believe that Klaus Graf got it right. In practice probably no one would disallow unrestricted class room/educational use, even if non-commercial third-party use in general were not included. It seems unwarranted to group the few who would care to explicitely state educational use rights into the next higher group, and doing so would only blur the rather clear distinction between the three categories.
I am also glad that SPARC has already introduced its OA seal, and that the seal is given only for Full OA in the sense of BBB. The SPARC seal, in my view, is more important than the Suber/Harnad agreement, because of its strong organisational support.

]]> /pmr/2008/05/05/some-test-cases-for-strongoaweakoa/#comment-1637 Mon, 05 May 2008 21:24:52 +0000 http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1079#comment-1637 Harnad/Suber call “strong” all what exceeds fair use. Weak is cost-free only (given national copyright restrictions), strong is if not all rights are reserved.
Here are some samples what they mean with strong:
(i) Strong is if an author has the right to put his article on his homepage or in a repository. This means that no third-party re-use is allowed.
(ii) Strong is if class-room/educational use is allowed (publisher will not sue the university, see the recent Georgia State University case).
(iii) Strong is all what has a CC license (or a compatible license) allowing non-commercial third-party use or non-derivative use.
For me that’s a betrayal of the BBB definition of OA.
We need at least three categories of OA.
(1) Full OA = BBB OA = CC-BY = SPARC OA Seal
(2) Permission reduced OA with third-party rights – case (iii) above
(3) Cost-free OA, including OA whith author’s self-archive permission and educational use – case (i)

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