<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 class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Stellenbosch University Library<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html" target="_blank">http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html</a><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Iryna Kuchma</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iryna.kuchma@eifl.net">iryna.kuchma@eifl.net</a>></span><br>Date: 20 May 2015 at 16:27<br>Subject: [EIFL-OA] Global coalition of organizations denounce Elsevier's new "sharing" policy<br>To: <a href="mailto:hilton.gibson@gmail.com">hilton.gibson@gmail.com</a><br>Cc: EIFL - Open Access program announcement and discussion list <<a href="mailto:eifloa@lists.eifl.net">eifloa@lists.eifl.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">EIFL joins a global coalition of organizations that denounce Elsevier's new "sharing" policy.<br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Please see the press release and associated statement speaking out against Elsevier’s new "sharing” policy. The pdf of the release is also attached. We encourage you to distribute to others, and sign onto the statement on the COAR website: <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/" target="_blank">https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/</a></div><span><font color="#888888"></font></span></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="font-family:TrebuchetMS;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span></span><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> <span> </span></span><span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="font-family:TrebuchetMS;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">For Immediate Release <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Contact: Ranit Schmelzer (SPARC)<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Wednesday, May 20, 2015 <a href="tel:202-538-1065" value="+12025381065" target="_blank">202-538-1065</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> </span><a href="mailto:sparcmedia@arl.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">sparcmedia@arl.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> Katharina Müller (COAR)<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> 49 551 39-22215<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:office@coar-repositories.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">office@coar-repositories.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">NEW POLICY FROM ELSEVIER IMPEDES OPEN ACCESS AND SHARING<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Global coalition of organizations denounce the policy and urge Elsevier to revise it<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Washington, DC and Göttingen, Germany</span></b><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"><span> </span>– Elsevier’s new sharing and hosting<span> </span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-updates-its-policies-perspectives-and-services-on-article-sharing" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">policy</a><span> </span>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, according to an analysis by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">“Elsevier’s policy is in direct conflict with the global trend towards open access and serves only to dilute the benefits of openly sharing research results,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC and Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director of COAR, in a joint statement. “Elsevier claims that the policy advances sharing but in fact, it does the opposite. We strongly urge Elsevier to revise it.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">The new stance marks a significant departure from Elsevier’s initial policy, established in 2004, which allowed authors to self-archive their final accepted manuscripts of peer-reviewed articles in institutional repositories without delay. While the stated purpose of the new revision is, in part, to roll back an ill-conceived 2012 amendment prohibiting authors at institutions that have adopted campus-wide Open Access policies from immediate self archiving, the net result of the new policy is that Elsevier has placed greater restrictions on sharing articles.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Twenty-three groups today released the following statement in opposition to the policy:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">“On April 30, 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">“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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">“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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">“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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">“We strongly urge Elsevier to reconsider this policy and we encourage other organizations and individuals to express their opinions.” The statement is available<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-against-elseviers-sharing-policy/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"><span> </span>and we welcome others to show their support by also endorsing it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">The statement has been signed by the following groups:<u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">ALA: American Library Association<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">ARL: Association of Research Libraries<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Association of Southeastern Research Libraries<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Australian Open Access Support Group<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">IBICT: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif" lang="ES-AR">CLACSO: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">COAPI: Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions</span><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Creative Commons<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Creative Commons (USA)<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">EIFL<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Electronic Frontier Foundation<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Greater Western Library Alliance<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">LIBER: European Research Library Association<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">OpenAIRE<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Open Data Hong Kong<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Research Libraries UK<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">SANLiC: South African National Licensing Consortium<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">University of St Andrews Library<u></u><u></u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries. More information can be found at<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.sparc.arl.org/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">http://www.sparc.arl.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">COAR, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, is an international association with over 100 members and partners from five continents representing universities, research institutions, government research funders, and others. COAR’s mission is to enhance the visibility and application of research outputs through a global network of Open Access digital repositories. COAR brings together the major repository initiatives in order to align policies and practices and acts as a global voice for the repository community.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></div></div></div></div></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="font-family:TrebuchetMS;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div></div></div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>
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