From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 12:01:14 +0100 The following comments on the page: http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.16460 clarify the practice of this new "shared read-only model" of NPG: **Lucas Veillon • 2014-12-03 02:55 AM: When will the free access begin? I'm attempting to read a Nature Reviews Endocrinology article in the December 2014 issue and not having any luck. ** Gavin Simpson • 2014-12-03 03:21 AM That's not how this works; someone with access currently --- either via an institutional or personal subscription --- needs to share with you a link to the read-only, Readcube version of the article. (Gavin Simpson is a Nature-guy) Is there a risk that Nature tries to replace author selfarchiving (green open access) by this new shared-read model? We will see, whether there will come a change in the wording of "NPG author licence policy" (the copyright transfer "agreement"). Institutions with print-only subscription may not benefit from the "shared-read-only model" I presume. ############################# "shared-read-only" in contrast to "open access" Citation from the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities: http://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration "Definition of an Open Access Contribution Establishing open access as a worthwhile procedure ideally requires the active commitment of each and every individual producer of scientific knowledge and holder of cultural heritage. Open access contributions include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material. 1. Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving." ____________________________________________________ Dr.-Ing. Joachim E. Meier Head of Library Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) (http://www.ptb.de) PF 3345 Tel. +49-531-592-8131 38023 Braunschweig Fax. +49-531-592-8137 GERMANY E-mail: [log in to unmask] ____________________________________________________