From: "Taylor, Anneliese" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 00:44:55 +0000

UCSF's OA policy is indeed a Green OA approach. The policy language is
meant simply to describe the principle that UCSF faculty have chosen
to follow with regard to their scholarly articles . Getting into the
specifics of what "final version" means to authors is being dealt with
in the implementation process, and our faculty felt it was not
appropriate to include such detail in the policy document.  In UCSF's
case the preferred final version is the publisher's version if the
publisher allows it to be deposited in an open access repository. If
not, the author's published article after peer-review but without the
publisher's typesetting and formatting is acceptable.

Anneliese Taylor
Head of Collection Management
University of California, San Francisco Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
(415) 476-8415
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From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:44:58 -0500

This press release emphasizes "scientific articles," but the policy
itself is not limited to articles in the sciences but to all faculty
articles of any kind.

The policy refers to the "final version" of the article, but provides
no definition of what that term means.  So, is this a Green OA
approach, or not?

It would be helpful if such policies and their accompanying press
releases were written with greater clarity.

Sandy Thatcher