<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Simboli</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brs4@lehigh.edu">brs4@lehigh.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:53 PM<br>Subject: Request for clarifications from Elsevier<br>To: <a href="mailto:liblicense@gmail.com">liblicense@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:a.wise@elsevier.com">a.wise@elsevier.com</a>, <a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com">amsciforum@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dr. Wise, <br><br clear="all"><div>So that I better understand the emerging controversy about Elsevier's new archiving policies, can you publicly address the following questions? <br><br>1. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Is this correct? <br></div><div><br>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.<br><br>2.<br><br></div><div> <br></div><div>is Stevan Harnad correct, or not correct, in claiming in the combox at <br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record" target="_blank">http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record</a><br></div><br></div><div>that <br><br></div><div><div style="margin-left:40px">"Since 2004 Elsevier had endorsed authors providing free immediate
(un-embargoed) access (“Green OA”) by self-archiving in their
institutional repositories." <br><br></div>and in implying that a shift in this policy began to evidence itself in 2012? <br> (I assume here that he means, in the sentence above, self-archiving of the accepted manuscript.<br><br></div><div>3.<br><br></div><div>Elsevier construes <i>embargoed</i> open access as green archiving?<br><br><br></div><div>Thanks<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Brian Simboli<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br><br><br></div><div><br>-- <br><div><div><div><div><pre>Brian Simboli
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