Back Access 12 months late is too little, too late to benefit research access, usage or progress. This is just another untoward side-effect of the flawed NIH Public Access Policy. NIH has now given ACS a pretext for feeling civic-minded in not giving its green light to immediate self-archiving!
The cure for all this dithering will be institutional self-archiving policies. It doesn't depend on publishers; it never did. It depends entirely upon researchers, their institutions and their research funders. http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html "Shulenburger on open access: so NEAR and yet so far" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3277.html "Please Don't Copy-Cat Clone NIH-12 Non-OA Policy!" http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2E01227A http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4307.html "Open Access vs. NIH Back Access and Nature's Back-Sliding" http://makeashorterlink.com/?M3115427A http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4312.html Stevan Harnad