<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Andrew A. Adams </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp" target="_blank">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br>
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Now, I just "archive and be damned"posting the author's final text (not the<br>
publisher PDF) in open depot ignoring any embargoes. If any publisher<br>
bothered to issue a take-down I'd reset to closed access (and always respond<br>
to button requests). None have so far.</blockquote><div><br></div><div> I agree completely!</div><div><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Digital Formality & Digital Reality</b></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1. </span><a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/statistics.php" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sixty percent of journals</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (including </span><a href="http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?id=30&fIDnum=|&mode=simple&la=en" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Elsevier</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) state formally in their copyright agreements that their authors </span><em style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">retain the right to make their final, peer-reviewed, revised and accepted version (Green) Open Access (OA) immediately, without embargo, by self-archiving them in their institutional repositories.</em><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. The </span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Elsevier take-down notices</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> did not pertain to the author’s final version but to the </span><a href="http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/glossary.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">publisher’s version of record</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (and in the case of 3rd party sites like </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">academia.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">they concerned not only the version but the </span><a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/490-guid.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">location</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">).</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3. The </span><a href="http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/01/u-of-liege-oa-mandate-now.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IDOA (immediate-deposit, optional-access) mandate</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> is formally immune to take-down notices, because it separates deposit from OA: </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">4. For articles published in the 60% of journals in which authors formally retain their right to provide immediate, unembargoed Green OA, they can be self-archived immediately in the institutional repository and also made OA immediately.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">5. For articles published in the 40% of journals that formally embargo OA, if authors wish to comply with the publisher’s embargo, the final, peer-reviewed, revised and accepted version can still be deposited immediately in the institutional repository, with access set as Closed Access (CA) during any embargo: only the title and abstract are accessible to all users; the full text is accessible only to the author.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">6. For CA deposits, institutional repositories have an </span><a href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/RequestEprint" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">email-eprint-request Button</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> with which individual users can launch an automated email request to the author for an individual copy for research purposes, with one click; the author can then decide, on an individual case by case basis, with one click, whether or not the repository software should email a copy to that requestor.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">7. It is the IDOA + Button Strategy that is the update of the “</span><a href="http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Tp/resolution.htm#Harnad/Oppenheim" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Harnad-Oppenheim Prepint + Corrigenda</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">” Strategy.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">8. But of course even the IDOA + Button Strategy is unnecessary, as is definitively demonstrated by what I would like to dub the “Computer Science + Physics Strategy”:</span></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="" style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px">9. Computer scientists since the 1980’s and Physicists since the 1990’s have been making both their preprints and their final drafts freely accessibly online immediately, without embargo (the former in <a href="http://csxstatic.ist.psu.edu/about" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">institutional FTP archives and then institutional websites</a>, and the latter in <a href="http://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_submissions" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">Arxiv</a>, a 3rd-party website) without any take-down notices (and, after over a quarter century, even the mention of the prospect of author take-down notices for these papers is rightly considered ludicrous).<br>
<br>10. I accordingly recommend the following: Let realistic authors authors practice the Computer Science + Physics Strategy and let formalistic authors practice the IDOA + Button Strategy — but let them all deposit their their final, peer-reviewed, revised and accepted versions immediately.<blockquote>
Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2012) <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">Open Access Mandates and the "Fair Dealing" Button</a>. In: <em>Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online</em> (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.)</blockquote>
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