<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: 20 December 2013 08:17<br>Subject: [GOAL] Institutions: Ignore Elsevier Take-Down Notices (and Mandate Immediate-Deposit)<br>To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br>
Cc: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum <<a href="mailto:LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu">LIBLICENSE-L@listserv.crl.edu</a>>, jisc-repositories <<a href="mailto:JISC-REPOSITORIES@jiscmail.ac.uk">JISC-REPOSITORIES@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Re: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/elsevier/" target="_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/elsevier/</a> (Elsevier Take-Down Notice to Harvard) </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">See Exchange on Elsevier Website: <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices" target="_blank">http://www.elsevier.com/connect/a-comment-on-takedown-notices</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><i>December 17, 2013 at 9:05 pm</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><b>Stevan Harnad</b>: Tom, I wonder if it would be possible to drop the double-talk and answer a simple question: Do or do not Elsevier authors retain the right to make their peer-reviewed final drafts on their own institutional websites immediately, with no embargo? Just a Yes or No, please… Stevan</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><i>December 18, 2013 at 2:36 pm</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><b>Tom Reller</b>: Hello Dr. Harnad. I don’t agree with your characterization of our explanation here, but nevertheless as requested, there is a simple answer to your question – yes. Thank you.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><i>December 20, 2013</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"><b>Stevan Harnad:</b> Tom, thank you. Then I suggest that the institutions of Elsevier authors ignore the Elsevier take-down notices (and also adopt an immediate-deposit mandate that is immune to all publisher take-down notices by requiring immediate deposit, whether or not access to the immediate-deposit is made immediately OA)… Stevan </p>
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