[GOAL] Fwd: Request for clarifications from Elsevier

[Stevan Harnad]

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From: Brian Simboli <brs4 at lehigh.edu>
Date: Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Request for clarifications from Elsevier
To: liblicense at gmail.com, a.wise at elsevier.com, amsciforum at gmail.com


Apologies:  one precision I didn't make; I've added the item in [   ].

Elsevier no longer allows full public access immediately [in an
institutional repository] to an accepted manuscript.

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Brian Simboli <brs4 at lehigh.edu> wrote:

> Dr. Wise,
>
> So that I better understand the emerging controversy about Elsevier's new
> archiving policies, can you publicly address the following questions?
>
> 1.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> Elsevier no longer allows full public access immediately to an accepted
> manuscript. It allows on-campus ("private") institutional repository
> access, until the embargo period is up. This new policy applies
> retrospectively, which is to say, institutions can be asked to take down
> articles that were posted according to the old policies, with some possible
> negotiable wiggle time to accommodate transitions.
>
> 2.
>
>
> is Stevan Harnad correct, or not correct, in claiming in the combox at
>
> http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record
>
> that
>
> "Since 2004 Elsevier had endorsed authors providing free immediate
> (un-embargoed) access (“Green OA”) by self-archiving in their institutional
> repositories."
>
> and in implying that a shift in this policy began to evidence itself in
> 2012?
>  (I assume here that he means, in the sentence above, self-archiving of
> the accepted manuscript.
>
> 3.
>
> Elsevier construes *embargoed* open access as green archiving?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards,
> Brian Simboli
>
>
>
>
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>
> Brian Simboli
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>


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Brian Simboli
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E.W. Fairchild Martindale
Lehigh University
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3170(610) 758-5003  Fax (610) 758-6524
E-mail:  brs4 at lehigh.edu
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