[BOAI] Re: Wrong Advice On Open Access: History Repeating Itself

[Prof. Tom Wilson]

Quoting Françoise Salager-Meyer <francoise.sm at gmail.com>:

> >I agree that the only solution is aN INSTITUTIONAL MANDATE. My question is:
> 
> In view of the fact that all researchers want to 
> publish in top-notch jornals (the 5.000 core 
> journals), isnt' there an incompatibility between 
> the pre-print publishing of peer-reviewed papers 
> and the subsequent publishing of the papers in 
> one such journal? Will the publisher agree that 
> the pre-print be published?

What is 'core' changes over time - the more you support free OA journsls, the
more likely it is that they will enter the core.

> I have a problem, for example, with the 
> commercial publisher Peter Lang. It does NOT 
> allow me to put in my institutional repository 
> the papers (post-print) that have been published 
> in Peter Lang books.

Don't publish with publishers that won't allow post-print archiving - go with
those that will. Or, better, publish in true OA journals.

> Elsevier acccepts the post-print publication 
> under the conditon that one does not use the 
> Elsevier logo.
> 
> Can anymore please answer the pre-print question: 
> will a commercial publisher accept that one put 
> on one's institution IR the pre-prints of the 
> papers to be later published in their journals?

That is a decision for the individual publisher - there is no general answer.
Some will, some won't.