Hi Marc, Apologies for the delay in replying – I have been on the road this week.
The introduction of tags was an idea we developed after consultation with large, mainly commercial, sharing platforms such as social collaboration networks. For them the challenge is to handle a tsunami of user-uploaded content in an automated way. We are working to implement tagging of both final articles and manuscripts which will include information to allow platforms to automatically detect what version of the article has been uploaded along with other key information such as the embargo end date. The availability of these metadata on full-text uploads will be particularly helpful to them. Repositories are free to extract and use the data from the tags if they would like to do so. We will also make these metadata available for everyone to use via our ScienceDirect API. However, not all repositories like the idea of a variety of APIs and some express the wish of a more simple method. Tagging therefore helps us to cater for differing platform needs. We recognize that the development of an industry-wide API would be desirable to avoid the need for repositories to integrate with multiple APIs, and we would support this approach. With kind wishes, Alicia 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: a.w...@elsevier.com<mailto:a.w...@elsevier.com> Twitter: @wisealic From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Couture Marc Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 9:03 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Update on statement against Elsevier's new "sharing" policy Hi all, Elsevier has a record of pretending to make its decisions (at least partly) in the interests of researchers, or research, and now repositories. One example is the introduction of tagged manuscripts. I don’t really understand how it will work and what will be gained by authors or repositories if they use these instead of the usual author-supplied manuscripts, with metadata residing in the repository itself. The new policy seems to imply that either the author-provided or the Elsevier-tagged manuscripts could be self-archived, but like much of the policy, it’s far from clear. In this page (http://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-updates-its-policies-perspectives-and-services-on-article-sharing), it is stated that in order to help repositories “ensure self-archived accepted manuscripts can be made available in line with publisher’s hosting & posting policies”, Elsevier will be “taking steps to tag all manuscripts from the point of acceptance with key metadata”. And also this: “IRs will have access to the tagged manuscripts if an author self-archives.” What I understand here is that these embedded metadata could be used by Elsevier to automatically, and more efficiently, monitor policy compliance (notably embargo). Which they have certainly the right to do, by the way. The point is: do we have, or wish to work for them on this? Finally, I suggest that you read the Comments section of the above-cited page, especially Ms Wise’s answers, which are - how to say it - more to the point than what I’d been expected to find. Marc Couture ________________________________ Elsevier Limited. Registered Office: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, Registration No. 1982084, Registered in England and Wales.
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