(Posted with permission) Guillaume Chapron wrote:
> I've just started an assistant professor position. I got recently a > paper accepted, and the conditions are as followed: > > - Submitted version: You may post the original manuscript of the > Article, as *submitted* for publication in the Journal, on your own > personal website (...) > - Accepted version: *12 months after publication* you may post the > original manuscript of the Article, as originally submitted for > publication in the Journal, and *updated to include any amendments made > after peer review*, on your own personal website (...) > - Please note that you are *not permitted to post the Blackwell > Publishing PDF* version of the Article online. > > At the same time, I get call for reviewing more ms. So Blackwell > Publishing (and others) have me working for free as an author and as a > reviewer, they get money by charging people who want to access my work, > and prevents me to distribute my work that has been validated by the > scientific community. I think that academics are supposedly critically > minded enough to understand that's not fair. > > I would like to know if there has been an attempt to stop reviewing ms > until the publisher makes a significant move toward OA. > > Scientists should realize that they have a big stick with the reviewing > process. Publishers can't do anything without it. Why not put the > pressure until they change ? > > -- > Guillaume Chapron, PhD > > Assistant Professor > Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences You are absolutely right in every point you make. Twenty-nine percent of journals are "pale-green" on author self-archiving, and Blackwell is one of the publishers in that category: They give their formal blessing -- superfluous, because it is permissible anyway -- for their authors to self-archive the submitted preprint immediately, but they request an embargo on the refereed final draft (postprint) for 12 months. (Sixty-two percent of journals are "full-green," endorsing immediate OA self-archiving of the refereed postprint -- the publisher's PDF is definitely not needed for OA -- and a further 9% of journals are gray, not endorsing any self--archiving at all, or only after an embargo.) http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php Yes, the policy of the 29% pale-greens and the 9% grays is deplorable, but it is a losing position, and victory is entirely within the reach of the research community, if they but grasp it: Universities and funders need merely mandate deposit of all postprints, without exception, immediately upon acceptance for publication (the IDOA mandate). The green 62% of deposits can be made immediately OA and the embargoed 38% can be made "Closed Access" (only the reference metadata are visible on the web), but the Institutional Repository's (IR's) semi-automatic "Email Eprint Request" Button (the "Fair-Use" Button) can provide almost-immediate, almost-OA during the embargo, until the overall OA pressure makes all embargoes die their inevitable and well-deserved death. http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html So, for now, I make three recommendations to you: (1) SLU already has four EPrints Epsilon IRs (3 for theses and one demo which I hope will soon be the SLU postprint IR). You should encourage SLU to launch its research postprint IR as soon as possible. http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=search&query=epsilon&sa=Search (2) You should urge the SLU rectorate to adopt an IDOA mandate as soon as possible too. Three Swedish institutions have registered OA policies, but none has yet adopted a self-archiving mandate. SLU could lead: http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html (3) For the unrefereed preprints that you make immediately OA (as per Blackwell pale-green policy, or even the gray ones), you can always append another file that lists all corrigenda, making them immediately equivalent to the postprint, though somewhat inconveniently. You can mention in the corrigenda file that the reader need merely use the Eprint Request Button in order to receive the revised postprint. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/gadd/09gadd.html Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h tml http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/