I beg the OA community to remain reasonable and realistic. *Please don't demand that Elsevier agree to immediate CC-BY. *If Elsevier did that, I could immediately start up a rival free-riding publishing operation and sell all Elsevier articles immediately at cut rate, for any purpose at all that I could get people to pay for. Elsevier could no longer make a penny from selling the content it invested in.
CC-BY-NC-ND <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/> is enough for now. It allows immediate harvesting for data-mining. The OA movement must stop shooting itself in the foot by over-reaching, insisting on having it all, immediately, thus instead ending up with next to nothing, as now. As I pointed out in a previous posting, *the fact that Elsevier requires all authors to adopt **CC-BY-NC-ND license is a positive step*. Please don't force them to back-pedal! Please read the terms, and reflect. SH Accepted Manuscript <http://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-posting-policy#accepted-manuscript> Authors can share their accepted manuscript: *Immediately * - via their non-commercial personal homepage or blog. - by updating a preprint <http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-policies/preprint_lightbox> in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript. - via their research institute or institutional repository for internal institutional uses or as part of an invitation-only research collaboration work-group. - directly by providing copies to their students or to research collaborators for their personal use. - for private scholarly sharing as part of an invitation-only work group on commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement. *After the embargo period * - via non-commercial hosting platforms such as their institutional repository. - via commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement. *In all cases accepted manuscripts should:* - Link to the formal publication via its DOI <http://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/lightbox-doi>. - Bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license – this is easy to do, click here <http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/lightbox_attach-a-user-license> to find out how. - If aggregated with other manuscripts, for example in a repository or other site, be shared in alignment with our hosting policy <http://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/hosting>. - Not be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the published journal article. How to attach a user license <http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/lightbox_attach-a-user-license> Elsevier requires authors posting their accepted manuscript to attach a non-commercial Creative Commons user license (CC-BY-NC-ND). This is easy to do. On your accepted manuscript add the following to the title page, copyright information page, or header /footer: © YEAR, NAME. Licensed under the Creative Commons [insert license details and URL]. For example: © 2015, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You can also include the license badges available from the Creative Commons website <http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads> to provide visual recognition. If you are hosting your manuscript as a webpage you will also find the correct HTML code to add to your page On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Kathleen Shearer < [email protected]> wrote: > (sorry for any cross-posting) > > In its recently released “Sharing and Hosting Policy FAQ”, Elsevier > “recognize(s) that authors want to share and promote their work and > increasingly need to comply with their funding body and institution's open > access policies.” However there are several aspects of their new policy > that severely limit sharing and open access, in particular the lengthy > embargo periods imposed in most journals- with about 90% of Elsevier > journals > <http://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/121293/external-embargo-list.pdf> > having > embargo periods of 12 months or greater. This is a significant rollback > from the original 2004 Elsevier policy which required no embargos for > making author’s accepted manuscripts available; and even with the 2012 > policy change requiring embargoes only when authors were subject to an OA > mandate. > > With article processing charges (APCs) that can cost as much as $5000 US > dollars > <https://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/open-access/sponsored-articles> for > publishing in one of Elsevier’s gold open access titles or hybrid journals, > this is not a viable option for many researchers around the world. > Furthermore, the rationale for lengthy embargo periods is to protect > Elsevier’s subscription revenue. We do not believe that scientific, > economic and social progress should be hindered in order to protect > commercial interests. In addition, there is currently no evidence that > articles made available through OA repositories will lead to cancellations. > > > Elsevier’s new policy also requires that accepted manuscripts posted in > open access repositories bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license. This type of license > severely limits the re-use potential of publicly funded research. ND > restricts the use of derivatives, yet derivative use is fundamental > <http://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/> to the way in which scholarly research > builds on previous findings, for example by re-using a part of an article > (with attribution) in educational material. Similarly, this license > restricts commercial re-use greatly inhibiting > <http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655> the potential impact > of the results of research. > > Elsevier’s Director of Access & Policy, Alicia Wise states that they “have > received neutral-to-positive responses from research institutions and the > wider research community.” Yet, since the “Statement against Elsevier’s > sharing policy > <https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/>” > was published just one week ago (on Wednesday May 20, 2015), it has been > signed by close to 700 organizations and individuals, demonstrating that > there is significant opposition to the policy. > > Elsevier has indicated that they “are always happy to have a dialogue to > discuss these, or any other, issues further.” We would like to offer the > following concrete recommendations to Elsevier to improve their policy: > > 1. > > Elsevier should allow all authors to make their “author’s accepted > manuscript” openly available immediately upon acceptance through an OA > repository or other open access platform. > 2. > > Elsevier should allow authors to choose the type of open license (from > CC-BY to other more restrictive licenses like the CC-BY-NC-ND) they want to > attach to the content that they are depositing into an open access > platform. > 3. > > Elsevier should not attempt to dictate author’s practices around > individual sharing of articles. Individual sharing of journal articles is > already a scholarly norm and is protected by fair use and other copyright > exceptions. Elsevier cannot, and should not, dictate practices around > individual sharing of articles. > > We strongly encourage Elsevier to revise their policy in order to better > align with the interests of the research community. We would also be > pleased to meet to discuss these recommendations with Elsevier at any time. > > > Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR > > Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC > > > > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Wise, Alicia (ELS-OXF) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone – >> >> >> Just a quick note to draw your attention to our article, posted today in >> Elsevier Connect and in response to yesterday’s statement by COAR: >> http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record. I’ll also >> append the full text of this response below. >> >> >> You might also be interested in this Library Connect webinar on some of >> the new institutional repository services we are piloting ( >> http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/2015-01/webinar-institutional-research-repositories-characteristics-relationships-and-roles) >> and reading our policies for yourselves: >> >> >> - Sharing – >> http://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-posting-policy >> - Hosting - http://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/hosting >> >> >> >> With best wishes, >> >> Alicia >> >> *COAR-recting the record* >> >> We have received neutral-to-positive responses from research institutions >> and the wider research community. We are therefore a little surprised that >> COAR has formed such a negative view, and chosen not to feedback their >> concerns directly to us. We would like to correct the misperceptions. >> >> Our sharing policy is more liberal in supporting the dissemination and >> use of research: >> >> - At each stage of the publication process authors can share their >> research: before submission, from acceptance, upon publication, and post >> publication. >> - In institutional repositories, which no longer require a formal >> agreement to host full text content >> - Authors can also share on commercial platforms such as social >> collaboration networks >> - We provide new services to authors such as the share link which >> enables authors to post and share a customized link for 50 days free >> access >> to the final published article >> - For authors who want free immediate access to their articles, we >> continue to give all authors a choice to publish gold open access with a >> wide number of open access journals and over 1600 hybrid titles >> >> Unlike the claims in this COAR document, the policy changes are based on >> feedback from our authors and institutional partners, they are >> evidence-based, and they are in alignment with the STM article sharing >> principles. They introduce absolutely no changes in our embargo periods. >> And they are not intended to suddenly embargo and make inaccessible content >> currently available to readers – as we have already communicated in Elsevier >> Connect >> <http://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-updates-its-policies-perspectives-and-services-on-article-sharing> >> . >> >> In fact, we have been developing services, in partnership with libraries, >> to help institutional repositories track research output and display >> content to their users. This includes: >> >> • Sharing metadata: In order to showcase an institutions’ work, an >> institutional repository must identify their institution’s research output. >> By integrating the ScienceDirect metadata API into the repository, this >> task becomes simple. Even in cases where the repository doesn’t hold the >> full text manuscript, the article information and abstract can be >> displayed.. >> >> • Sharing user access information and embedding final articles: We >> are testing a workflow in which a user’s access level to the full text is >> checked on the fly, and if full text access is available, the user will be >> served the final published version, instead of the preprint or manuscript >> hosted by the repository. Users who are not entitled to view the full text >> of the final article will be led to the version available in the >> repository, or- if this is not available- to a page where they can view the >> first page of the article and options for accessing it (including via >> interlibrary loan). This ensures that users will always be served the best >> available version. This also enables the repository to display the best >> available version to their users even if no self-archived manuscript is >> available. >> >> We have not only updated our policies, we are active in developing and >> delivering technology that enables research to be shared more widely. >> >> COAR states that the addition of a CC-BY-NC-ND license is unhelpful. >> Feedback suggests that clarity about how manuscripts can be used is >> welcome, when asked in surveys often choose NC ND of their own volition >> (see the T&F study from 2014 at >> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-survey-june2014.pdf >> ), and it works across a broad range of use cases. >> >> Our refreshed policies are about green OA, and some elements of this – >> for example the use of embargo periods – are specifically for green OA when >> it is operating in tandem with the subscription business model. Here time >> is needed for the subscription model to operate as libraries will >> understandably not subscribe if this material is available immediately and >> for free. >> >> In closing, we appreciate an open dialogue and are always happy to have a >> dialogue to discuss these, or any other, issues further. >> >> Dr Alicia Wise >> >> Director of Access and Policy >> >> Elsevier I The Boulevard I Langford Lane I Kidlington I Oxford I OX5 1GB >> >> M: +44 (0) 7823 536 826 I E: [email protected] >> >> *Twitter: @wisealic* >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Elsevier Limited. 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