[IRTalk] Exploiting Elsevier's CC License Requirement to Subvert Embargo

[Nason Bimbe]

In the last round of author sharing policy revisions, Elsevier created a
labyrinthine
title-by-title embargo structure requiring embargoes from 12-48 months for
author sharing via
institutional repository (IR), while permitting immediate sharing via
author's personal website or
blog. At the same time, all pre-publication versions are to bear a Creative
Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) license. At
the time this
policy was announced, it was rightly criticized by many in the scholarly
communication
community as overly complicated and unnecessary. However, this CC licensing
requirement
creates an avenue for subverting the embargo in the IR to achieve quicker
open distribution of
the author's accepted manuscript. In short, authors may post an
appropriately licensed copy on
their personal site, at which point we may deposit without embargo in the
IR, not through the
license granted in the publication agreement, but through the CC license on
the author's
version, which the sharing policy mandates. This poster outlines this
issue, our experimentation
with application, and engage viewers in questions regarding its potential
risks, benefits, and
workflows.

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/24107/KraemerPosterSupportingNotes.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y
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