[GOAL] Elsevier's interpretation of CC BY-NC-ND

[Couture Marc]

Hi all,

What’s to conclude from this perplexing answer?

I did check Elsevier’s policy, in case it had changed overnight... but it didn’t: manuscripts under embargo still must bear CC licenses allowing anybody (except the authors, who are bound by the publishing agreement they have signed) to post them on a non-commercial site (that includes all institutional repositories, as far as I can see).

I can just assume that “it wouldn’t really work very well for very long” means that if it does works (that is, if enough researchers and repository staff members do what is needed), Elsevier will simply (again) change its policy, like they did before after mandates became more prevalent.

Will this cat-and-mouse play ever end?

Researchers could - and should - be the ones calling the shots, deciding how and under what conditions their results are made public. Some are already showing the way (http:/openlibhums.org<http://openlibhums.org>, http://episciences.org, http://discreteanalysisjournal.com, etc.).

Marc Couture


De : goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] De la part de Hersh, Gemma (ELS-CAM)
Envoyé : 20 juin 2017 02:18
À : Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Objet : Re: [GOAL] Elsevier's interpretation of CC BY-NC-ND

Dear Richard

Elsevier's hosting policy<https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/hosting> explains how platforms can host Elsevier content. This includes enabling institutional repositories to share their employee's or student's accepted manuscripts publicly after an embargo period, but not beforehand.

The challenge with the proposal below is that it wouldn’t really work very well for very long; an embargo period is needed to enable the subscription model to continue to operate, in the absence of a separate business model.

Best wishes

Gemma

Gemma Hersh
VP, Policy and Communications
Elsevier I 125 London Wall I London I EC2Y 5AS
M: +44 (0) 7855 258 957 I E: g.hersh at elsevier.com<mailto:g.hersh at elsevier.com>
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