---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian Simboli <[email protected]> Date: Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Request for clarifications from Elsevier To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Apologies: one precision I didn't make; I've added the item in [ ]. Elsevier no longer allows full public access immediately [in an institutional repository] to an accepted manuscript. On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Brian Simboli <[email protected]> wrote: > Dr. Wise, > > So that I better understand the emerging controversy about Elsevier's new > archiving policies, can you publicly address the following questions? > > 1. > > Is this correct? > > Elsevier no longer allows full public access immediately to an accepted > manuscript. It allows on-campus ("private") institutional repository > access, until the embargo period is up. This new policy applies > retrospectively, which is to say, institutions can be asked to take down > articles that were posted according to the old policies, with some possible > negotiable wiggle time to accommodate transitions. > > 2. > > > is Stevan Harnad correct, or not correct, in claiming in the combox at > > http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record > > that > > "Since 2004 Elsevier had endorsed authors providing free immediate > (un-embargoed) access (“Green OA”) by self-archiving in their institutional > repositories." > > and in implying that a shift in this policy began to evidence itself in > 2012? > (I assume here that he means, in the sentence above, self-archiving of > the accepted manuscript. > > 3. > > Elsevier construes *embargoed* open access as green archiving? > > > Thanks > > Regards, > Brian Simboli > > > > > -- > > Brian Simboli > Science Librarian > Information Resources > E.W. Fairchild Martindale > Lehigh University > 8A East Packer Avenue > Bethlehem, PA 18015-3170(610) 758-5003 Fax (610) 758-6524 > E-mail: [email protected] > > -- Brian Simboli Science Librarian Information Resources E.W. Fairchild Martindale Lehigh University 8A East Packer Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18015-3170(610) 758-5003 Fax (610) 758-6524 E-mail: [email protected]
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