Karen A question /comment. In many of our departments, the people who would most likely be assigned by the faculty member to download the accepted manuscript for posting to websites and IR's are graduate students and office secretaries, or other support staff. A strict reading of this suggests such staff/assistants would not be allowed, yet they are the most likely to get the assignment in my experience.
Chuck Hamaker From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Hunter, Karen A (ELS-NYC) Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:53 PM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Elsevier Again Confirms Its Position on the Side of the Green OA Angels As much as Elsevier appreciates praise for its policies, we also want to prevent misunderstanding. We are grateful that Colin Smith, Research Repository Manager of the Open University, approached us with a question on our author posting policy. Mr. Smith had noticed that for some journals an early "accepted manuscript" version of an author's paper was available on ScienceDirect and he wanted to know if authors could download it and deposit it to their institutional repositories. As our longstanding policy permits authors to voluntarily post their own author manuscripts to their personal website or institutional repository, we responded that we would not object to an author downloading this version. However, our broader policy prohibits systematic downloading or posting. Therefore, it is not permitted for IR managers or any other third party to download articles or any other version such as articles-in-press or accepted manuscripts from ScienceDirect and post them. To the extent that Colin Smith's message could be read as encouraging IR managers to download, it is a misinterpretation of our position. Karen Hunter Senior Vice President Elsevier k.hun...@elsevier.com ____________________________________________________________________________ From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:54 AM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Fwd: Elsevier Again Confirms Its Position on the Side of the Green OA Angels ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Elsevier Still Solidly on the Side of the Angels on Open Access http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/268-guid.html ____________________________________________________________________________ From: C.J.Smith Sent: 26 November 2008 10:05 To: UKCORR-DISCUSSION-- JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Elsevier final draft versions A short while ago I mentioned on this list that Elsevier are producing PDFs of the final accepted peer-reviewed manuscript and publishing them online as part of their 'Articles in Press' system (see attached example). The 'Accepted Manuscript' will stay online until the 'Uncorrected Proof' replaces it. Everyone knows that Elsevier's policy (like most other publishers) allows the use of the final accepted peer-reviewed manuscript in repositories, but I wondered whether they would be happy about us making use of the 'Accepted Manuscript' version they are producing and publishing online. The answer (officially - from Daviess Menefee, Director of Library Relations at Elsevier) is 'yes'. This is really good news because it gives us (Repository Managers and Administrators) a window of opportunity to always get hold of the final accepted peer-reviewed manuscript for Elsevier items (assuming your institution subscribes to the journal in question). The 'window of opportunity' is that time between which the 'Accepted Manuscript' appears online and is replaced by the 'Uncorrected Proof'. Colin Smith Research Repository Manager Open Research Online (ORO) Open University Library Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Tel: +44(0)1908 332971 Email: c.j.smith -- open.ac.uk http://oro.open.ac.uk --------------------------------- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).