Stevan Harnad wrote: > Please note that you are now asking about embargo POLICY, not copyright > LAW, and embargo policy has no legal status. It is merely a practice > that a journal may or may not adopt, and may or may not follow (such > as not accepting articles in Spanish or on Experimental Oenology).
This is a fine distinction in principle, but in practice it makes no difference for people who must attempt to publish in American Psychological Assocaition journals in order to advance (or even maintain) their academic careers now. The simple fact (whether legal, political, or even crassly careerist) is that scientific psychologists will not be self-archiving in droves until the problem is resolved. Despite your apparent optimism about the matter, I have seen no indication that APA will "see the light" given the extraordinary degree of control they currently have. As you know better than most, they have been relatively resistant to even acknowledging the importance of electronic media. Question: Do you know what the current policies are among the few, major non-APA scientific psychology journals? e.g., American Journal of Psycohlogy (U. Illinois), Psychological Science (APS), Cognitive Science (Ablex), and Cognition (Elsevier) come immediately to mind. There must be others as well. Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 e-mail: [email protected] phone: (416) 736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: (416) 736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo
