Springer Improves Its' Open Choice Publishing Program, Improves The Terms

Springer has improved the terms of its Open Choice program. First, open-choice authors may now retain copyright. Second, open-choice articles are released under a license which Springer says is identical to the Creative Commons Attribution-NoCommercial license.

PS: Congratulations to Jan Velterop (former BioMedCentral Head, at present Open Choice Director at Springer) who, I presume, was behind these changes.

Source: P Suber. Springer improves Open Choice OANews (11 Oct 2005) [FullText]