This morning I had to look up the citations to an article. It did no show up in WoS immediately so I had to look a bit around to trace it’s exact details. I found the article as an open access article on Highwire. No problem.
However, I was struck by the extensive and confusing copyright statements at the top of the abstract. On the first line is has the classic copyright sign © which indicates to me “all rights reserved” in this case to the CBS fungal biodiversity Centre. But the all rights reserved sign was followed immediately with their own worded Creative Commons license. CC 3.0 in this case.
I was little bemused by the third clause “”You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work”. Isn’t that what science is all about? Building on previous work?
Another annoying fact is that the DOI is not working. But this is the link to the abstract, there are plenty of similar examples in this “Studies in Mycology” to be found.
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