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I assumed that posting a PDF to a preprint server means sharing it under open licenses for general re-use, CC-BY or similar? I guess this email from PMC (pestering me to press a button for permission to re-format and share) means that's not true? Or is it them being anxious?
I just checked. The paper that @EuropePMC_news have asked me to do admin labour on... is shared under CC-BY:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.19.20135491v1.article-info
Anyone is free to copy, redistribute, in any form.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Can people stop giving pointless admin tasks to researchers please?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.19.20135491v1.article-info
Anyone is free to copy, redistribute, in any form.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Can people stop giving pointless admin tasks to researchers please?
And also, organisations should proudly and positively use open licenses like CC-BY to do public good. These licenses are powerful, they were invented for a reason! And furthermore, those researchers who don't share nicely (code, papers) should receive... problems.
For anyone who doesn't know these licenses are magical. When we share http://OpenSAFELY.org research output under CC-BY we are saying you are free to share it, copy it, redistribute it in any form, remix it, build upon it, adapt it. BUT... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
..BUT we're not "giving it away", and there are restrictions. You have to attribute it and give appropriate credit. You are not allowed to impose new restrictions to prevent other people re-using it. And you're not allowed to pretend we endorse you or your use of our work. Magic!
