<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Hilton Gibson</b></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Stevan Harnad</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 17 December 2013 22:41<br>Subject: [GOAL] Re: Elsevier Take-down to Institutions<br>To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br><br>
<br><div dir="ltr">Everybody calm down…<div><br></div><div>If Elsevier sends a take-down notice to a university, you have two simple options:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
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<b>(1) Leave it up, and send the notice back to Elsevier with a <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/open-access/open-access-policies/article-posting-policy#accepted-author-manuscript" target="_blank">copy of Elsevier's policy on self-archiving</a>.</b></div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><b>OR</b></div><div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><b>(2) Re-set access as Closed Access and rely on the repository's copy-request Button.</b></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>(If the take-down notice was because you deposited the publisher's PDF, make the publisher's PDF Closed Access and deposit the author's final draft instead, and make that OA.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>And fix your mandate to make sure it specifies that the author's final draft should be deposited immediately upon acceptance for publication, not the publisher's PDF.</div><div><br></div><div>
I'm braced for the cacophony of uninformed, self-important nonsense that will now be confidently catapulted back and forth across the airwaves over this simple matter for the next few weeks...</div>
<div><br></div><div>(Calgary could have saved us all a lot of time and energy if it had responded pragmatically to this latest round of Elsevier <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&lr=&q=harnad%20OR%20Harnad%20OR%20archivangelism+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&ie=UTF-8&tbm=blg&tbs=qdr:m&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active#c2coff=1&hl=en&lr=&q=systematic+OR+systematicity+blogurl:http://openaccess.eprints.org/&safe=active&tbm=blg" target="_blank">FUD and bluff</a> -- but, after all, this is exactly what FUD's for, isn't it?)</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Stevan Harnad</b><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pm286@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">pm286@cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>In a blog post<br>
<a href="http://svpow.com/2013/12/17/elsevier-steps-up-its-war-on-access/" target="_blank">http://svpow.com/2013/12/17/elsevier-steps-up-its-war-on-access/</a> <br></div>Mike Taylor reports that<br>
<p><a href="http://www.ucalgary.com/" target="_blank">The University of Calgary</a> has just sent this notice to all staff:</p>
<blockquote><p>The University of Calgary has been contacted by a company
representing the publisher, Elsevier Reed, regarding certain Elsevier
journal articles posted on our publicly accessible university web pages.
We have been provided with examples of these articles and reviewed the
situation. Elsevier has put the University of Calgary on notice that
these publicly posted Elsevier journal articles are an infringement of
Elsevier Reed’s copyright and must be taken down.</p></blockquote>We are now in the position - which many of us foresaw many years ago - that if Green Open Access started to hurt publishers they would arbitrarily close it down or otherwise make it difficult. <br>
<br></div>Green OA is not a right, nor a contractual agreement and can be withdrawn at any time. The danger for the publisher is bad publicity but this seems to be a weak constraint.<br><br></div>Others may debate why Elsevier has done this - maybe the papers aren't on the right web pages, maybe the University has a mandate (which invalidates Green OA as far as Elsevier is concerned), maybe it's a foulup , maybe...<br>
<br></div>The simple truth is that this is the end of the road for many of us. We are not working with publishers, we are fighting them.<br><br></div>Open Access is about justice. <br><br></div>This is not.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div><div><div><div><div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br><a href="tel:%2B44-1223-763069" value="+441223763069" target="_blank">+44-1223-763069</a>
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