Some test cases for strongOA/weakOA
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I am still – honestly – completely unable to work out what the proposed boundary between strongOA and weakOA (see copious blog posts recently) . I therefore put forward some testcases and ask those who understand it – especially the proponents – what category they fall into:
- CC-BY
- CC-NC
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The following terms have been proposed as synonymous with strongOA:
transparent and self-explanatory (Harnad):
RE-USE OA
READ-WRITE OA
PERMISSION OA
generic
EXTENDED OA
EXTENSIBLE OA
FULL OA
PMR: I am particularly worried about the use of "FULL-OA" for anything that isn't.
To recap – I now have no idea what the boundaryline is. I hope some testcases will make it clearer. Because everyone except me seems to agree the line is clear but I suspect they will all put it at different places.
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I am still – honestly – completely unable to work out what the proposed boundary between strongOA and weakOA (see copious blog posts recently) . I therefore put forward some testcases and ask those who understand it – especially the proponents – what category they fall into: CC-BY CC-NC Springer Open Choice from the site: Springer operates a program called Springer Open Choice.
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- https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/?p=1079
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- https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2008/05/05/some-test-cases-for-strongoaweakoa/
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2008-05-05T19:25:00Z
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2008-05-05T19:25:00Z