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

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 12, 2012, Alicia Wise (Elsevier Director of Universal
> Access)  wrote:
>
> It will be very helpful in helping researchers to provide -- and their
> institutions and funders to mandate -- Open Access if Elsevier drops
> its "you may if you wish but not if you must" clause, which is not
> only incoherent, but intimidates authors.
>

Stevan,
Could you please explain this clause? (This is my ignorance as I don't
publish with Elevier and so am unfamiliar with their author-side
contracts). Does it mean that Elsevier sometimes allows Green Open Access
and sometimes don't?

P.



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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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