[For those who could not read Karen Hunter's encrypted posting, here is the ascii version] Chuck,
Thanks for pointing out a possible misunderstanding. I was not trying to suggest that authors could not work with others around them to assist them with postings. What our policy is intended to address are non-author initiatives (for example, by an IR administrator) to periodically crawl our site and harvest all articles (or, in this case, early manuscript versions) originating from a given institution. By the way, we are happy to work with the institution on ways to post metadata and link to the final article on ScienceDirect. Karen From: American Scientist Open Access Forum To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Mon Dec 08 15:03:46 2008 Subject: Re: Elsevier Again Confirms Its Position on the Side of the Green OA Angels 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