<div dir="ltr">Concluding, I cannot see the reason for the existence of the STM licences other than to taint the open access licensing environment by generating more licence complexity and more confusion on the academic authors. I am not concerned about the knowledgeable people when it comes to copyright and licensing, they will never use the STM suite. I am more concerned about the average author who really has no time to think about the wider implications of their licensing decisions, and will simply sign any agreement that has the term “open” in it, because in that way they will comply with the OA requirements imposed by funding bodies.<br>
<br><b><font color="#ff0000">We must denounce the STM licences for what they are, good old FUD.</font></b><div><br><a href="http://www.technollama.co.uk/academic-publishers-draft-and-release-their-own-open-access-licences">http://www.technollama.co.uk/academic-publishers-draft-and-release-their-own-open-access-licences</a></div>
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