Statement about Elsevier's new policy concerning authors’ rights to self-archive articles - Kungliga biblioteket
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"The Steering committee of the OpenAccess.se approved a statement at its meeting on May 23, 2011, about Elsevier's new policy. Elsevier now requires specific agreements with universities or research funders if there is an open access mandate to deposit and disseminate articles in a specific open archive. These agreements may involve long embargo periods and restrict availability of research results. "We strongly object to Elsevier’s new policy, which requires separate agreements for author’s rights, and we urge Elsevier to withdraw the new clause. We recommend that Swedish universities with open access mandates refrain from concluding separate agreements with Elsevier. Instead, this issue should be managed along with negotiations over national license agreements with Elsevier." ..."