[GOAL] Re: Informa.plc - Taylor and Francis no-embargo for LIS journals

[Heather Morrison]

It would be more accurate to state that informa.plc owns Taylor & Francis (see the company informa About page) rather than that informa is the umbrella organization. The purpose of T&F is to earn profits for informa.plc shareholders. Informa may prefer that scholars and librarians not focus on this aspect of the company. My perspective is that it is very important for scholars and librarians to be aware of the nature and purposes of the organizations to which we give the visible results of our life's work (in the case of scholars) and the bulk of the budgets entrusted to us by the universities we work for (in the case of librarians).

Here is what I am seeing with respect to T&F self-archiving embargo policies:

General policies (thanks for the link, Charles):

Taylor & Francis mandates public access to the final version of your manuscript twelve (12) months after the publication of the Version of Scholarly Record in science, engineering, behavioral science, and medicine; and eighteen (18) months after first publication for arts, social science, and humanities journals, in digital or print form.
http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/permissions/reusingOwnWork.asp

T&F response to the post, "Journal editorial board quits over open access principle":
Under our LIS pilot program, authors can freely post their (“post-print”) manuscript immediately on publication – ie without any embargo.
https://theconversation.com/journal-editorial-board-quits-over-open-access-principle-13086

In summary, T&F has announced an LIS pilot program involving no embargoes on self-archiving. Since the editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration cited the embargo period of up to 18 months as a reason for the mass resignation, I think it is reasonable to make the connection, that the pilot program removing embargoes is a response to this mass resignation.

best,

Heather Morrison
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com


On 2013-03-28, at 2:41 AM, Hamaker, Charles wrote:

> My mistake, Informa appears to be the umbrella organization for T&F:
> http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/
> 
> Also, the policy on author posting might date from 2009
> Chuck Hamaker
> ________________________________________
> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [goal-bounces at eprints.org] on behalf of Heather Morrison [hgmorris at sfu.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:32 PM
> To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
> Subject: [GOAL] Informa.plc - Taylor and Francis no-embargo for LIS journals
> 
> In response to a post on the mass resignation of the Journal of Library Administration, Informa.plc, the multinational conglomerate working under its scholar-friendly-sounding brand "Taylor & Francis", posted this note about self-archiving:
> 
> "Under our LIS pilot program, authors can freely post their (“post-print”) manuscript immediately on publication – ie without any embargo."
> 
> from:
> https://theconversation.com/journal-editorial-board-quits-over-open-access-principle-13086
> 
> Is there a connection? If other disciplines wish to remove embargoes to self-archiving, should they convince one of their journals to resign, too?
> 
> best,
> 
> Heather G. Morrison
> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
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