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</ul></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><address class="" style="font-style:inherit"><span id="from"><dfn style="font-weight:bold">From</dfn>: Stevan Harnad <<a href="mailto:harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk?Subject=Re%3A%20Elsevier%20Gives%20Authors%20Green%20Light%20for%20Open%20Access%20Self-Archiving">harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> </span><br>
<span id="date"><dfn style="font-weight:bold">Date</dfn>: Thu, 27 May 2004 23:51:58 +0100</span><br></address><br>Elsevier has just gone from being a Romeo "Pale-Green" publisher to a full <br>Romeo Green publisher: Authors have the publisher's official green light to <br>
self-archive both their pre-refereeing preprints and their refereed <br>postprints. <br><br>Elsevier has thereby demonstrated that -- whatever its pricing policy <br>may be -- it is a publisher that has heeded the need and the expressed <br>
desire of the research community for Open Access (OA) and its benefits to <br>research productivity and progress. <br><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html</a> <br>
<br>There will be the predictable cavils from the pedants and those who <br>have never understood the real meaning and nature of OA: "It's only the <br>final refereed draft, not the publisher's PDF," "It does not include <br>
republishing rights," "Elsevier is still not an OA publisher." <br><br>I, for one, am prepared to stoutly defend Elsevier on all these counts, <br>and to say that one could not have asked for more, and that the full <br>
benefits of OA require not one bit more -- from the publisher. <br><br>For now it's down to you, Dear Researchers! Elsevier (and History) <br>is hereafter fully within its rights to say: <br><br> "If Open Access is truly as important to researchers as they claim it <br>
is -- indeed as 30,000+ signatories to the PLoS Open Letter attested <br> that it was <a href="http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/cgi-bin/plosSign.pl">http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/cgi-bin/plosSign.pl</a> -- <br>
then if researchers are not now ready to *provide* that Open Access, <br> even when given the publisher's official green light to do so, <br> then there is every reason to doubt that they mean (or even know) <br>
what they are saying when they clamour for Open Access." <br><br>Elsevier publishes 1,700+ journals. That means at least 200,000 articles <br>a year. Eprints.org will be carefully quantifying and tracking what <br>
proportion of those 200,000 articles is made OA by their authors through <br>self-archiving across the next few months and years. Indeed we will be <br>monitoring all of the over 80% of journals sampled by Romeo that are <br>
already green. <br><br>(The following Romeo summary stats are already out of date, because 1700 <br>pale-green journals have now become bright green! <br><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html</a> <br>
but we will soon catch up at: <a href="http://romeo.eprints.org/">http://romeo.eprints.org/</a> [which is <br>under construction, waiting for full journal lists from each of the 93 <br>publishers sampled so far].) <br><br>
The OA ball is now clearly in the research community's court (not the <br>publishing community's, not the library community's). Let researchers <br>and their employers and funders now all rise to the occasion by <br>
adopting and implementing institutional OA provision policies. Don't <br>just sign petitions for publishers to provide OA, but commit your own <br>institution to providing it: <br><br><a href="http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php">http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php</a> <br>
<br>Stevan Harnad <br><br>Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 03:09:39 +0100 <br>From: "Hunter, Karen (ELS-US)" <<a href="http://k.hunterelsevier.com">k.hunterelsevier.com</a>> <br>To: "'<a href="http://harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk">harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>'" <<a href="http://harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk">harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> <br>
Cc: "Karssen, Zeger (ELS)" <<a href="http://Z.Karssen_at_elsevier.nl">Z.Karssen_at_elsevier.nl</a>>, <br> "Bolman, Pieter (ELS)" <<a href="http://P.Bolman_at_elsevier.com">P.Bolman_at_elsevier.com</a>>, <br>
"Seeley, Mark (ELS)" <<a href="http://m.seeley_at_elsevier.com">m.seeley_at_elsevier.com</a>> <br>Subject: Re: Elsevier journal list <br><br>Stevan, <br><br>[H]ere is what we have decided on post-"prints" (i.e. published articles, <br>
whether published electronically or in print): <br><br>An author may post his version of the final paper on his personal web site <br>and on his institution's web site (including its institutional respository). <br>Each posting should include the article's citation and a link to the <br>
journal's home page (or the article's DOI). The author does not need our <br>permission to do this, but any other posting (e.g. to a repository <br>elsewhere) would require our permission. By "his version" we are referring <br>
to his Word or Tex file, not a PDF or HTML downloaded from ScienceDirect - <br>but the author can update his version to reflect changes made during the <br>refereeing and editing process. Elsevier will continue to be the single, <br>
definitive archive for the formal published version. <br><br>We will be gradually updating any public information on our policies <br>(including our copyright forms and all information on our web site) to get <br>it all consistent. <br>
<br>Karen <br><br>Karen Hunter <br>Senior Vice President, Strategy <br>Elsevier <br>+1-212-633-3787 <br><a href="http://k.hunter_at_elsevier.com">k.hunter_at_elsevier.com</a> </div></div></div>