[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized

[Bernard Rentier - IMAP]

To answer Alicia Wise's query, 6 proposals of positive things from publishers 
that should be encouraged :

Allow systematically and under no condition and at no cost depositing the 
peer-reviewed postprint – either the author's refereed, revised final draft or 
— even better for the Publishers publicity — the publisher's version of record 
in the author's institutional repository.
Remove from authors' contracts the need to sign away their rights and transform 
it into a non exclusive license of their rights.
Agree that by default, part of the rights on an article belong to the author's 
Institution if public and/or to the Funding organization, if public.
Reduce significantly (or at least freeze for 5 years) the purchasing cost of 
periodicals, then increase at the real inflation rate, officially measured in 
Western countries (1-3 % per year).
Reduce significantly the number of periodical titles published, aiming for 
excellence and getting rid of the mediocre title which are bundled in 
Elsevier's Big Deals and similar deals by other publishers. This would 
reduce their monopolistic position.
Reward Institutions for the work provided by reviewers, editors and… authors, 
either directly or indirectly through lower subscription costs.

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[GOAL] Re: Elsevier's query re: positive things from publishers that should be encouraged, celebrated, recognized

[Bernard Rentier - IMAP]

To answer Alicia Wise's query, 6 proposals of positive things from publishers
that should be encouraged :
 1. Allow systematically and under no condition and at no cost depositing the
peer-reviewed postprint – either the author's refereed, revised final 
draft
or — even better for the Publishers publicity — the publisher's 
version of
record in the author's institutional repository.
 2. Remove from authors' contracts the need to sign away their rights and
transform it into a non exclusive license of their rights.
 3. Agree that by default, part of the rights on an article belong to the
author's Institution if public and/or to the Funding organization, if
public.
 4. Reduce significantly (or at least freeze for 5 years) the purchasing cost of
periodicals, then increase at the real inflation rate, officially measured
in Western countries (1-3 % per year).
 5. Reduce significantly the number of periodical titles published, aiming for
excellence and getting rid of the mediocre title which are bundled in
Elsevier's Big Deals and similar deals by other publishers. This would
reduce their monopolistic position.
 6. Reward Institutions for the work provided by reviewers, editors and…
authors, either directly or indirectly through lower subscription costs.

Bernard Rentier



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Re: The affordability problem vs. the accessibility problem

[Bernard Rentier - IMAP]

And it is very easy to achieve. But only by University authorities.
All it takes is a few minutes of political courage and let their research
community know that any author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft of
any refereed journal article that is not in the Institutional Repository will be
disregarded in any performance assessment within the University.

It works.
But it takes not just authority. It takes also a lot of preparation, information
and incentives to convince everyone, because it works best if everybody
understands that it is for their own good, for their own interest, and not only
for the University's visibility.

This is precisely why we created EOS (Enabling Open Scholarship;
http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/j_6/accueil ), to convince Heads of
Universities to jump that leap.

Bernard Rentier 


Le 6 nov. 2011 à 18:51, Stevan Harnad a écrit :

  On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Allen Kleiman wrote:

 Is there a difference between 'access to information 'and 'access to the
 publishers copy'?

Yes, a lot:

(1) Information can mean any information: published,
confidential, public, royalty-seeking, non-royalty-seeking, author
give-away, non-author-giveaway.

(2) The primary target information of the OA movement is refereed research
journal articles, all of which, without exception, are written exclusively
for research uptake, usage and impact, not for royalty revenues.

(3) The restrictions (embargoes) that publishers place on OA
self-archiving of the author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft
are far fewer than the restrictions on the publisher's version-or-record.
(The publishers of over 60% of journals, including almost all the top
journals in each field, already endorse OA self-archiving of the author's
final draft -- but not the publisher's version-of-record -- immediately
upon publication. These are called green publishers, and OA
self-archiving is called green OA.)

The OA movement is not -- and cannot be -- the movement for open access to
all information.

It is the movement for open access to refereed research journal articles.

The author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft is the refereed
journal article.

Access to the author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft of a
refereed journal article is the difference between night and day for all
would-be users whose institutions cannot afford subscription access to the
publisher's version of record.

This is why the first and most urgent priority of the OA movement is to
ensure that all research institutions and funders mandate (require) the
deposit of the author's refereed, corrected, accepted final draft of every
refereed journal article in their institutional repository immediately
upon publication (with access to the deposit immediately set as Open
Access for at least 60% of the deposits from green journals, and the
repository's semi-automated email eprint request Button providing
Almost OA to the remaining 40% for individuals requesting access for
research purposes.semi-automatically with two key-presses, at the
discretion of the author).

Stevan Harnad