Stephen Downes

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SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition - is asking for public comment on a document defining different degrees of openness. SPARC has long been a proponent of open access. The document being reviewed promotes the old canard that commercial reuse is somehow 'more open' than commercial-free reuse. Despite this, the document has value in defining degrees of openness related to embargos, copyrights, author posting rights, automated posting and machine readability. Moreover, it proclaims "Journals can be more open or less open, but their
degree of openness is intrinsically independent from their impact, prestige, quality of peer review, peer review methodology, sustainability, effect on tenure and promotion and article quality." The call for comments ends October 8.

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