[Advocacy Advisors] Advocacy_Advisors Digest, Vol 25, Issue 26

[Jon Davies]

Would really be worth calling them out on this. Perhaps they are just
Innocent or perhaps trying to pull the wool?


On 26 July 2014 13:01, <advocacy_advisors-request at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Hi, all-
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> An academic publishing group called STM (The International Association of
> Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) has published some "open"
> licenses that, well, aren't really open. In my reading, they fail both the
> OKFN's open definition and freedomdefined.org's definition, so would not
> be
> acceptable on Commons or other WMF projects.
>
> Andrés Guadamuz has written about this more here:
>
> http://www.technollama.co.uk/academic-publishers-draft-and-release-their-own-open-access-licences#
>
> I'm considering drafting a WMF blog post on this issue, because of the
> potential for confusion and the limitations on reuse[1]. I've also been
> made aware of a potential letter on the subject from a variety of related
> organizations that we'll consider signing on to.
>
> This is not advocacy per se, since it is a private group and not a
> government, but I wanted to give you all a heads up in case you were asked
> about it by publishers or other people in the open access movement.
>
> Have a great weekend-
> Luis
>
> [1] We have piles of materials from legitimately open-licensed journals,
> like PLOS:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_PLOS_journals
> (seriously,
> I spent minutes clicking around in there and never got past the letter A,
> alphabetically)
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