[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Still Onside of Angels on Immediate, Unembargoed Green OA Self-Archiving By Its Authors

2013-05-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2013-05-03, at 2:57 AM, David Prosser david.pros...@rluk.ac.uk wrote: I agree with Andras and I cannot see how any publisher who has a policy along the lines of: You may make your author version freely available without embargo unless you are mandated (by funder or institution) to do

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Still Onside of Angels on Immediate, Unembargoed Green OA Self-Archiving By Its Authors

2013-05-03 Thread David Prosser
Since -- exactly like Springer's (hedge-free) rights-retention policy (and countless others) -- Elsevier's policy does indeed formally recognize right of the authors of the articles published in 2000 Elsevier journals to make them immediately OA (unembargoed), I would say that the angelic

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Still Onside of Angels on Immediate, Unembargoed Green OA Self-Archiving By Its Authors

2013-05-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2013-05-02, at 3:17 AM, Andras Holl h...@konkoly.hu wrote: Dear Stevan, Regardless however right you are, Elsevier's play with words succesfully confuses a large number of authors, who do not deposit because of this. Dear Andras, You are quite right. But word-play is word-play, and

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Still Onside of Angels on Immediate, Unembargoed Green OA Self-Archiving By Its Authors

2013-05-02 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2013-05-02, at 4:28 AM, Fotis Georgatos fo...@mail.cern.ch wrote: On May 2, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Andras Holl wrote: Regardless however right you are, Elsevier's play with words succesfully confuses a large number of authors, who do not deposit because of this. It is the role of research

[GOAL] Re: Elsevier Still Onside of Angels on Immediate, Unembargoed Green OA Self-Archiving By Its Authors

2013-05-01 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:10 PM, BISSET J. james.bis...@durham.ac.uk wrote: From our understanding of Elsevier policy this is not the case in two instances: 1) if the institution requires deposit in their institutional repository 2) if the funder requires open access. Dear James,