creative commons for academic publishers

Creative Commons for Academic Publishers

Jessica CoatesProject Manager

Creative Commons ClinicSeptember 2008

AUSTRALIApart of the Creative Commons international initiative

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mons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

http://www.qut.edu.au/

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

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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


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


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’


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.


“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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GRACIAS!!Universidad Nacional y Fundación Karisma“Acceso 0.1”Enero 28 y 29 de 2008