From: Brian Simboli <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:53 PM

Dr. Wise,

So that I better understand the emerging controversy about Elsevier's
new archiving policies, can you publicly address the following
questions?

1.  Is this correct?

Elsevier no longer allows full public access immediately to an
accepted manuscript. It allows on-campus ("private") institutional
repository access, until the embargo period is up. This new policy
applies retrospectively, which is to say, institutions can be asked to
take down articles that were posted according to the old policies,
with some possible negotiable wiggle time to accommodate transitions.

2.  Is Stevan Harnad correct, or not correct, in claiming in the combox at:

http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record

that  "Since 2004 Elsevier had endorsed authors providing free
immediate (un-embargoed) access (“Green OA”) by self-archiving in
their institutional repositories."  And in implying that a shift in
this policy began to evidence itself in 2012?  (I assume here that he
means, in the sentence above, self-archiving of the accepted
manuscript.

3.  Elsevier construes embargoed open access as green archiving?

Thanks

Regards,

Brian Simboli
Science Librarian
Information Resources
E.W. Fairchild Martindale
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3170
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