RE: OA and copyright -- Andy Gass quote in LJ News Wire

["T Scott Plutchak" <tscott@uab.edu>]

The following is from the Bethesda Statement on Open Access as quoted on
PubMedCentral (PMC)(http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/about/openaccess.html)

"The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free,
irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to
copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make
and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible
purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right
to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use."

The Journal of the Medical Library Association is freely available upon
publication on PMC, but is not included on PMC's list of open access
journals because the authors keep the copyright of their individual
articles and permission is NOT freely given for anyone to do whatever they
want with those articles in the digital medium.

I'm a member of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
(AAHSL) Scholarly Communication Task Force and one of the things we've
discussed is the matter of a clear definition of "open access".  For our
purposes, the term refers simply to availability without subscription
barriers.  But the Bethesda Statement is much broader than that.

T. Scott Plutchak

Editor, Journal of the Medical Library Association

Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
tscott@uab.edu