ARL

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-09-15

Summary:

"We, the undersigned, representing some 204,144 faculty and more than 3.6 million students, are writing to convey to you our significant concerns regarding Elsevier’s updated sharing and hosting policy. The updated Elsevier article sharing policy imposes excessive restrictions on authors and institutions, employs embargo periods that are counter to the requirements established by the federal government, and, more fundamentally, impedes the sharing of information by scholars that is so fundamental to the research process. Access to research publications is an essential component of teaching, research and learning. Elsevier’s policy places strict requirements on authors and institutions as to when and where an accepted manuscript may be publicly available. The policy requires the author to employ the most restrictive Creative Commons license, prohibiting full reuse or commercial use. This restrictive license impedes collaboration among researchers and scholars. Collaboration is further restricted by embargoes ranging from 12 to 48 months on final, peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts. Extended embargo periods will lead to confusion and conflicts as well, since they are in direct conflict with mandates in the U.S. and Canada for deposit of the results of funded research. Many U.S. federal agencies and all three Canadian funding agencies are implementing public access plans and policies; at this time, all plans have at most a 12- month embargo ..."

Link:

http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/2015.09.09-ElsevierLetterSigned.pdf

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

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Date tagged:

09/15/2015, 19:45

Date published:

09/15/2015, 15:45