[GOAL] Re: Cambridge policy change

[Stevan Harnad]

On Oct 2, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Jean-Claude Guédon <jean.claude.guedon at umontreal.ca> wrote:

> In my opinion, all mandates should immediately include immediate collection into a dark archive with
> a button. 

Hear hear!

Immediate-deposit should be the sine-qua-non of all OA mandates: Whatever else the stimulate,
they should always include an immediate-deposit clause… and immediate upon acceptance, not upon
publication.

>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:JISC-REPOSITORIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
>> On Behalf Of Gray, Andrew D.
>> Sent: 02 October 2014 16:55
>> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Cambridge policy change
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Just spotted this today: Cambridge Journals have apparently changed their
>> overall green OA policy sometime in the past few months (there's no date on
>> the new policy that I can see to indicate when it was brought in, and I
>> can't find an announcement)
>> 
>> July:
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20140714210504/http://journals.cambridge.org/acti
>> on/displaySpecialPage?pageId=4608
>> Now: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialPage?pageId=4608
>> 
>> You used to be able to post the version of record to an institutional
>> repository with a twelve-month embargo, but this has been altered to
>> "abstract only". The AAM used to have no embargo, and this has now been
>> altered to six months after publication. The new policy is undated, and they
>> haven't updated the "Copyright and Repositories" agreement, which still
>> lists the old terms:
>> 
>> http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialPage?pageId=4676
>> 
>> It's still RCUK-compliant, but it's a bit frustrating - Cambridge had had
>> one of the better self-deposit policies.
>> 
>> - Andrew Gray
>>   anday at bas.ac.uk // 01223 221 312
>>   Library, British Antarctic Survey
>> 

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