Mathieu ONeil <[email protected]> writes:
Hi all
A French colleague inquired whether JoPP was archived in any databases including the "easier to get into" Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This seems like a pretty good fit for us. I checked it out and it does not seem too bad so I'm willing to give it a go.
https://doaj.org/application/new
However there are a few questions I'm not sure about. I've copied them all below but the most important issues IMO are PDFs and copyright.
We used to have a PDF generator for articles. This broke and was meant to be repaired...? This absence limits our ability to be picked up by search engines and archived in other databases.
@Peter (and maxigas): is there a solution in sight?
This is absolutely my sin, I signed up for testing and recommending a PDF renderer plugin for Wordpress and I never got around to put in the necessary work. I would also like JoPP to be listed in databases so I will try to do this soonish, but in order not to stress myself I would say "this year".
COPYRIGHT
PDFs would feature this text:
"This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License"
Now the only indication we have about copyright is "All the contents of this journal are in the public domain" (on the front page) which is a bit vague.
It is *somewhat* vague, but in some jurisdictions it is an existing and precisely defined legal category: Before 1988 in the US, works could be easily given into the public domain by just releasing it without an explicit Copyright notice. With the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 (and the earlier Copyright Act of 1976, which went into effect in 1978), all works were by default copyright protected and needed to be actively given into public domain by a waiver statement/anti-copyright notice.^[44]^[45] Not all legal systems have processes for reliably donating works to the public domain, e.g. civil law of continental Europe.^[citation needed] This may even "effectively prohibit any attempt by copyright owners to surrender rights automatically conferred by law, particularly moral rights".^[46] ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain I really like that JoPP is *not* subscribed to the typical Creative Commons licencing regimes because I am against copyrights alltogether, at least for scholarly works. For myself, it is a core value of JoPP that distinguishes this journal from other projects in the "open science" and "open access" field. Most other projects legitimise the existing licencing regime by putting more specific licences on their content. Public domain is a bit like WTFPL (Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License). I think that is an important message to send. I suggest that if we need a concrete licence than we go with the recommendation of the Open Knowledge Foundation in this regard: In October 2014 the Open Knowledge Foundation recommends the Creative Commons CC0 license to dedicate content to the public domain,^[52]^[53] and the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) for data.^[54]
So should we change this text to the CC licence? Any reason not to?
See above -- I am very much against licencing content under "CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License", but I would be happy with CC0.
Finally there are some questions at the end about author ownership - I assume we give all rights to authors? @Our legal experts (Angela, Steve...): any thoughts on this?
I would be interested about legal opinions on this too! As far as I understand, in this sense "copyright" refers to some "moral rights" of authors, one of the most important one of which is to choose the licence for their works (for instance by submitting them to JoPP and accepting our public domain or CC0 policy) and optionally issue the work under other licence if they want to (known as "dual licencing"). The latter can be interesting for authors if for instance they want to give a text they wrote to a collected volume or magazine that wants to publish everything under a traditional "All rights reserved" licence, but the text in question have already been published in JoPP under CC0. Hope what I try to express here is clear, I am a bit unsure, so feel free to ask. :)
cheers
Mathieu
SEE QUESTION AND POSSIBLE ANSWERS BELOW
Publisher => Self-published?
Platform, Host or Aggregator => Peter?
What digital archiving policy does the journal use? => No policy in place?
Does the journal allow software/spiders to automatically crawl the journal content (also known as text mining)? => No?
Which article identifiers does the journal use? => None? DOI Handles ARK
Please indicate which formats of full text are available * PDF HTML ePUB XML Other
What is the URL for the journal's Open Access statement?
Does the journal embed or display simple machine-readable CC licensing information in its articles? Yes No
Copyright and Permissions Copyright & Licensing help
52) Does the journal allow the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions? * Yes No Other
54) Will the journal allow the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions?
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