Of Elsevier and Embargoes 2.0 | OAnarchy

"Last year I presented a poster at the Kraemer Copyright Conference in Colorado Springs, titled “Exploiting Elsevier’s Creative Commons Licensing Requirement to Subvert Embargo” (available CC-BY in my IR). In the following weeks I blogged about it and the reactions from a couple of Elsevier folks. Since that time I’ve discussed the idea with many colleagues and worked with the great folks at the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship on an article building on the poster. I’m so pleased and excited to say that the article was published early in August, under the slightly different title “Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Subvert Embargo“, which is also open and CC-BY per JCEL‘s progressive publishing and sharing policies. In short, I suggest that a careful application of the sharing policy as presently written creates an avenue for embargo-free immediate open sharing of the author’s accepted manuscript via institutional repository. This is possible because the policy permits immediate sharing on the author’s “personal website or blog” with a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) license. The license then is a mechanism for eliminating any embargo (up to 48 months) for open sharing in the author’s institutional repository, sharing policy notwithstanding…or sharing policy withstanding, as it were...."