Originally shared by Miguel Afonso Caetano"Giving up the copyright on your creation is just folly, and academics need to think about why it would be better to stop doing so. After all, publisher don't need copyright assigned to them - they just need a licence from the authors - but it's something they routinely demand because they know that doing so puts them in the driving seat.
Refusing to hand copyright over or to agree to other restrictive conditions would allow academics to retain full control over their work , and to place their papers in a Green OA repository under a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence if they wished. That, in turn, would make those depositions fully compatible with the standard definitions of open access."
Refusing to hand copyright over or to agree to other restrictive conditions would allow academics to retain full control over their work , and to place their papers in a Green OA repository under a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence if they wished. That, in turn, would make those depositions fully compatible with the standard definitions of open access."
The Open Access Schism: Recapitulating Open Source?