Global Coalition of Access to Research, Science and Education Organizations calls on STM to Withdraw New Model Licenses

The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) has produced sample licences for a variety of uses within open access publishing in order to offer a wide variety of appropriate licensing terms dependent on their economic model and business strategy.

http://www.stm-assoc.org/open-access-licensing/

In response to this initiative, a large coalition which includes funders, institutions, publishers, curators and the users of public resources called on the STM Association to withdraw these licenses. According to them, in their current formulation, these licenses would limit the use, reuse and exploitation of research.