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Its very nice that they made all those articles available. But it is definitely not 50 years of published records made Open Access. OA mirrors FOSS software in
by tokai 4y ago
Its very nice that they made all those articles available. But it is definitely not 50 years of published records made Open Access. OA mirrors FOSS software in some ways and the users need many of the same freedoms. Just making them available to read with the same old copyright still attach is not enough.
The Budapest Declaration from 2002 that defined OA for the first time states it very clearly:
"By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself."
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/ https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/
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- wolverine876 4y agoGood points, but what is the copyright?