From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 13:44:11 -0400 I beg the OA community to remain reasonable and realistic. Please don't demand that Elsevier agree to immediate CC-BY. If Elsevier did that, I could immediately start up a rival free-riding publishing operation and sell all Elsevier articles immediately at cut rate, for any purpose at all that I could get people to pay for. Elsevier could no longer make a penny from selling the content it invested in. CC-BY-NC-ND is enough for now. It allows immediate harvesting for data-mining. The OA movement must stop shooting itself in the foot by over-reaching, insisting on having it all, immediately, thus instead ending up with next to nothing, as now. As I pointed out in a previous posting, the fact that Elsevier requires all authors to adopt CC-BY-NC-ND license is a positive step. Please don't force them to back-pedal! Please read the terms, and reflect. SH Accepted Manuscript Authors can share their accepted manuscript: Immediately * via their non-commercial personal homepage or blog. * by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript. * via their research institute or institutional repository for internal institutional uses or as part of an invitation-only research collaboration work-group. * directly by providing copies to their students or to research collaborators for their personal use. * for private scholarly sharing as part of an invitation-only work group on commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement. After the embargo period * via non-commercial hosting platforms such as their institutional repository. * via commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement. In all cases accepted manuscripts should: * Link to the formal publication via its DOI. * Bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license – this is easy to do, click here to find out how. * If aggregated with other manuscripts, for example in a repository or other site, be shared in alignment with our hosting policy. * Not be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the published journal article. How to attach a user license: Elsevier requires authors posting their accepted manuscript to attach a non-commercial Creative Commons user license (CC-BY-NC-ND). This is easy to do. On your accepted manuscript add the following to the title page, copyright information page, or header /footer: © YEAR, NAME. Licensed under the Creative Commons [insert license details and URL]. For example: © 2015, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You can also include the license badges available from the Creative Commons website to provide visual recognition. If you are hosting your manuscript as a webpage you will also find the correct HTML code to add to your page