[Irtalk] The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Elsevier's twist on open access and Creative Commons includes exclusive license to publish

[Hilton Gibson]

It should come as no surprise that Elsevier's venture into "open access"
involves creating a new hybrid of free and toll access. In brief, authors
publishing in Elsevier's new open access journals have an option of
Creative Commons licenses (good), but are also expected to sign an
exclusive license agreement granting Elsevier publishing and distribution
rights and leaving authors and their institutions with "copyright" and a
range of scholarly use rights which is the same limited range of options
available to subscription-based authors. At best, this is confusing and
conflicting and should be regarded as a new form of pseudo open access.
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/04/elseviers-twist-on-open-access-and.html
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