[GOAL] Re: On Author/Publisher Agreements

2013-05-06 Thread Stevan Harnad
Ifr any of the 60% of journals that currently endorse immediate, unembargoed Green OA (the Side of the Angels) were to decide to backslide and join the 40% of journals that embargo Green OA, what is awaiting them is (1) some extremely bad press (which one publisher in particular can ill afford)

[GOAL] Re: On Author/Publisher Agreements

2013-05-04 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2013-05-03, at 10:53 AM, Couture Marc marc.cout...@teluq.ca wrote: I strongly support the advice to ignore altogether all these extra and confusing conditions. Let's ask Elsevier the question in our own terms: 1. Do you, YES or NO, allow posting of author manuscripts? 2. If YES:

[GOAL] Re: On Author/Publisher Agreements

2013-05-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, David Kane dk...@wit.ie wrote: Thanks for flagging this. I am not clear about exactly what you mean though. Are you talking about an extra clause in the existing Institutional LICENCING agreement, or a second Institutional agreement that they are now

[GOAL] Re: On Author/Publisher Agreements

2013-05-03 Thread Couture Marc
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:08 AM, brent...@ulg.ac.be wrote: Elsevier's policy is now clear: Well, Elsevier's intentions are maybe clear (or clearer now) but, personally, I wouldn't qualify as clear a policy which is scattered among many documents and which, even after being read and reread,