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 E-mail: [log in to unmask]