[Irtalk] Fwd: Organizations Around the World Denounce Elsevier’s New Policy That Impedes Open Access and Sharing

Tue May 26 11:18:45 SAST 2015

Hi,

Something needs to be done at the highest level of institutions, e.g. Vice-Chancellors or HESA?  I have told LIASA that we need to do something, at least sign the petition that international bodies and SANLIC have signed.
I believe HESA and CHELSA needs to get involved in this before it is too late.  Perhaps a petition or statement from all the SA tertiary institutions and libraries to Elsevier should be considered as well.

Does anyone else have any suggestions on how the matter should be escalated urgently?

Regards
Denise

From: Leti Kleyn [mailto:Leti.Kleyn at up.ac.za]
Sent: 26 May 2015 09:03 AM
To: Denise Nicholson
Cc: irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za; Hilda Kriel
Subject: Re: [Irtalk] Fwd: Organizations Around the World Denounce Elsevier’s New Policy That Impedes Open Access and Sharing

Thanks Denise,

This implies that we should close ALL articles for a period of time retrospectively ... And that is going to cause chaos!
But, it also excludes a huge number of post prints we can no longer upload without an embargo period ...

Lets keep this discussion going!

Kindest
L.

Dr Leti Kleyn
Manager: Open Scholarship Programme
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University of Pretoria
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On 26 May 2015, at 8:58 AM, "Denise Nicholson" <Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za<mailto:Denise.Nicholson at wits.ac.za>> wrote:
Hi,

We have to strongly object to this.  They cannot control institutions’ research or their repositories.  SANLIC has signed the petition against their policy but perhaps CHELSA and HESA need to do the same?

Regards
Denise

From: Leti Kleyn [mailto:Leti.Kleyn at up.ac.za]
Sent: 26 May 2015 08:55 AM
To: irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za<mailto:irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za>
Cc: Hilda Kriel
Subject: [Irtalk] Fwd: Organizations Around the World Denounce Elsevier’s New Policy That Impedes Open Access and Sharing

Dear IR members,

Could anyone indicate if they will be adhering to this new policy by CLOSING materials already in the institutional repository to align with the statement that indicate that it also apllies to past articles?

Kindest
L.

Dr Leti Kleyn
Manager: Open Scholarship Programme
E-services
Merensky Library II
University of Pretoria
leti.kleyn at up.ac.za<mailto:leti.kleyn at up.ac.za>
012 420 3876
082 347 9982

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Organizations Around the World Denounce Elsevier’s New Policy That Impedes Open Access and Sharing

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On April 30, 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy<https://t.e2ma.net/click/9tr1h/t9gvsn/91twxc> for Elsevier journal articles. This policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge, and creates unnecessary barriers for Elsevier published authors in complying with funders’ open access policies. In addition, the policy has been adopted without any evidence that immediate sharing of articles has a negative impact on publishers subscriptions.
Despite the claim by Elsevier that the policy advances sharing, it actually does the opposite. The policy imposes unacceptably long embargo periods of up to 48 months for some journals. It also requires authors to apply a “non-commercial and no derivative works” license for each article deposited into a repository, greatly inhibiting the re-use value of these articles. Any delay in the open availability of research articles curtails scientific progress and places unnecessary constraints on delivering the benefits of research back to the public.
Furthermore, the policy applies to “all articles previously published and those published in the future” making it even more punitive for both authors and institutions. This may also lead to articles that are currently available being suddenly embargoed and inaccessible to readers.
As organizations committed to the principle that access to information advances discovery, accelerates innovation and improves education, we support the adoption of policies and practices that enable the immediate, barrier free access to and reuse of scholarly articles. This policy is in direct conflict with the global trend towards open access and serves only to dilute the benefits of openly sharing research results.
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  *   COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories
  *   SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, USA
  *   ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries, USA
  *   ALA: American Library Association, USA
  *   ARL: Association of Research Libraries, USA
  *   ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, USA
  *   AOASG: Australian Open Access Support Group, Australia
  *   IBICT: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, Brazil
  *   CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Canada
  *   CLACSO: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
  *   COAPI: Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, USA
  *   Creative Commons
  *   Creative Commons, USA
  *   EIFL: Electronic Information for Libraries, Netherlands
  *   EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation, USA
  *   GWLA: Greater Western Library Alliance, USA
  *   LIBER: European Research Library Association, Belgium
  *   National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  *   OpenAIRE
  *   Open Data Hong Kong
  *   RLUK: Research Libraries UK
  *   SANLiC: South African National Licensing Consortium
  *   University of St Andrews Library, UK
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