The definition of ‘open access’ is critical to this discussion.
It’s quite common for publishers to designate some content as freely available to readers for a short period in honor of an author or as an Editor’s Choice.
It is also common (typical?) to have articles in a new journal freely available for one or two years as the publisher seeks to have the journal become known. Those articles will usually become ‘closed’ after that period is over – and the newly published articles
will be closed thereafter unless there is an author-pays open access program of some sort in place (either author-choice or required OA).
The term ‘open access’ may be used in some such cases without the publisher meaning to have the articles CCBY ever or any sort of open access in perpetuity.
Mary Summerfield
SPIE
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We do honor OA status of journals, depending on our agreement with publishers. We actually had our first OA title—Astronomy Education Review—trigger OA
in 2014 as per the request of the publisher. I hope that information helps.
Marita
ITHAKA/Portico
It's also whether Portico as an archival site will honor the OA status of articles or journals or if they will be putting OA content back behind a paywall.
This is an important question. When we were considering paying the big bucks for an online subscription to Science (we just get the print now), we inquired whether that online sub included perpetual
access rights. We were told it wasn't necessary because Science is open after a year anyway. But that isn't a good answer because the open access is voluntary and not contractual on Science's part and could disappear at any time with a change of management,
at least as far as I could find out. I think Nature might have the same situation.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Chumbe, Santiago S <S.Chumbe@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
Hello,
I will be answering some questions regarding Open Access (OA) in an activity organized in my School and I am planning to say that Open Access articles are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Is that definition really correct?
In particular I would like you to be sure about the meaning of "permanently" in the OA context.
Have you come across to a case where an article that was initially published as Open Access (OA) but which later became a non-OA article?
I mean, can an OA article become a subscription article?
And if yes, under which reasonable circumstances would happen that?
Thank you!
Santiago
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