<div dir="ltr"><div class="" style="border:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:20px"><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Exchange with Alicia Wise, Elsevier:</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1150-.html" rel="nofollow" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49,146,122);text-decoration:none">http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1150-.html</a></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">ALICIA WISE, ELSEVIER:</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Hi Stevan –</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We continue to permit immediate self-archiving in an author’s institutional repository. This is now true for all institutional repositories, not only those with which we have agreements or those that do not have mandates. You are correct that under our old policy, authors could post anywhere without an embargo if their institution didn’t have a mandate. Our new policy is designed to be consistent and fair for everybody, and we believe it now reflects how the institutional repository landscape has evolved in the last 10+ years. </p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We require embargo periods because for subscription articles, an appropriate amount of time is needed for journals to deliver value to subscribing customers before the manuscript becomes available for free. Libraries understandably will not subscribe if the content is immediately available for free. Our sharing policy now reflects that reality.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">With kind wishes,<br>Alicia</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Dr Alicia Wise<br>Director of Access & Policy<br>Elsevier<br><a href="mailto:a.wise@elsevier.com" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(49,146,122);text-decoration:none">a.wise@elsevier.com</a><br>@wisealic<br>—————————————————</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">STEVAN HARNAD</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Alicia,</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Unless I am misunderstanding something, your response seems to be a play on words (double-talk).</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">You say Elsevier permits “immediate self-archiving in… all institutional repositories, not only those with which we have agreements or those that do not have mandates.”</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">But “self-archiving” means (and always has meant) Open Access self-archiving.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Otherwise it would merely mean “depositing,” for which no one needs (or has ever needed) Elsevier’s permission.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Embargoed depositing is not OA self-archiving (and never was).</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">So what is new is not the (unneeded) permission from Elsevier to deposit, but the very new and regressive embargo on making the deposit immediately OA — in other words, an embargo on the immediate self-archiving that Elsevier had been officially permitting since 2004. </p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">It is shameful to try to justify this flagrant back-pedalling as being done “to be consistent and fair for everybody”.</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">It was clearly done solely to sustain subscriptions at all costs (to research access, usage and progress). And Elsever should at least admit that, openly (sic).</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sincerely,</p><p style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Stevan Harnad</p><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Kathleen Shearer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="Gill Sans MT, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Please excuse the cross posting.</span></font></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 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39-22215</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif"><a href="mailto:office@coar-repositories.org" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span>office@coar-repositories.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">------------- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:left;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">NEW POLICY FROM ELSEVIER IMPEDES OPEN ACCESS AND SHARING</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:left;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">Global coalition of organizations denounce the policy and urge Elsevier to revise it</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">Washington, DC and Göttingen, Germany</span></b><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">– Elsevier’s new sharing and hosting<span> </span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-updates-its-policies-perspectives-and-services-on-article-sharing" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span>policy</span></a><span> </span>represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders’ open access policies, according to an analysis by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">“Elsevier’s policy is in direct conflict with the global trend towards open access and serves only to dilute the benefits of openly sharing research results,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC and Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR, in a joint statement. “Elsevier claims that the policy advances sharing but in fact, it does the opposite. We strongly urge Elsevier to revise it.” </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">The new stance marks a significant departure from Elsevier’s initial policy, established in 2004, which allowed authors to self-archive their final accepted manuscripts of peer-reviewed articles in institutional repositories without delay. While the stated purpose of the new revision is, in part, to roll back an ill-conceived 2012 amendment prohibiting authors at institutions that have adopted campus-wide Open Access policies from immediate self archiving, the net result of the new policy is that Elsevier has placed greater restrictions on sharing articles.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">Twenty-three groups today released the following statement in opposition to the policy:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">“On April 30, 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles. This policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders’ open access policies. In addition, the policy has been adopted without any evidence that immediate sharing of articles has a negative impact on publishers’ subscriptions.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">“Despite the claim by Elsevier that the policy advances sharing, it actually does the opposite. The policy imposes unacceptably long embargo periods of up to 48 months for some journals. It also requires authors to apply a "non-commercial and no derivative works" license for each article deposited into a repository, greatly inhibiting the re-use value of these articles. Any delay in the open availability of research articles curtails scientific progress and places unnecessary constraints on delivering the benefits of research back to the public.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">“Furthermore, the policy applies to "all articles previously published and those published in the future" making it even more punitive for both authors and institutions. This may also lead to articles that are currently available being suddenly embargoed and inaccessible to readers.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">“As organizations committed to the principle that access to information advances discovery, accelerates innovation and improves education, we support the adoption of policies and practices that enable the immediate, barrier free access to and reuse of scholarly articles. This policy is in direct conflict with the global trend towards open access and serves only to dilute the benefits of openly sharing research results.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">“We strongly urge Elsevier to reconsider this policy and we encourage other organizations and individuals to express their opinions.”</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">The statement is available<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">here</span></a></span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">and we welcome others to show their support by also endorsing it.</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">The statement has been signed by the following groups:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span 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Kong</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">Research Libraries UK</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">SANLiC: South African National Licensing Consortium</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">University of St Andrews Library</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries. More information can be found at<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">http://www.sparc.arl.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif">COAR, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, is an international association with over 100 members and partners from five continents representing universities, research institutions, government research funders, and others. COAR’s mission is to enhance the visibility and application of research outputs through a global network of Open Access digital repositories. COAR brings together the major repository initiatives in order to align policies and practices and acts as a global voice for the repository community.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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