Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum: Elsevier Still Squarely on the Side of the Angels

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:47:46 -0500 

This is a (rare and gratifying) ecumenical outcome: All parties -- OA advocates,
rights specialists and publishing specialists -- agree that Elsevier is, and
remains, squarely on the side of the angels insofar as author OA self-archiving
is concerned. 
The tempest-in-a-teapot induced by some inadvertent gibberish introduced into
some of the Elsevier policy language by some foggy-minded wag can and should be
ignored (as should any echoes of such cuckoo clauses if they are
somnambulistically amplified by central policy registries).

So now we can all get back to the urgent task at hand: Getting institutions and
funders to mandate OA self-archiving...

Amen,

Ezekiel

On 2011-01-11, at 8:04 AM, Sally Morris wrote:

I can confirm this - I have also obtained their licence alternative it on
request (since my article was about a model 'Licence to Publish' I could
hardly have done otherwise!)
 
Sally
 
       
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________________________________________________________________________________
From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
[mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of CHARLES OPPENHEIM
Sent: 11 January 2011 10:53
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum

Yes indeed, that it what I use with Elsevier.  The company does not
advertise the fact, but it has this  licence available to anyone who asks
for it.
Charles

Professor Charles Oppenheim

--- On Tue, 11/1/11, Alma Swan <[email protected]> wrote:

      From: Alma Swan <[email protected]>
      Subject: Re: Rights Reductio Ad Absurdum
      To: [email protected]
      Date: Tuesday, 11 January, 2011, 5:33

      Charles Openheim wrote:

                  >  I negotiated with Elsevier when my
                  article was accepted by one of their
                  jo=
                  > urnals.  My refusal to assign
                  copyright was at the time a matter of
                  princip=
                  > le rather than any anticipation of
                  the OA movement.  So issues of having
                  to=

                         >  later negotiate permission to
      self-archive never arose.

      Elsevier has a Licence To Publish which it will provide if an
      author declines to click through its Copyright Transfer
      Agreement online.

      I offered Elsevier the SPARC/Science Commons Author Addendum
      instead of signing the CTA and in response was sent the LTP.
      It allows the author to keep all the rights needed for
      personal dissemination, re-use, etc while obtaining, for
      Elsevier, sole rights to publish it in a journal. Since most
      articles are not ever destined to be published in more than
      one journal, this seems a very satisfactory solution for the
      majority of cases.

      Alma Swan
      Key Perspectives Ltd
      Truro, UK

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