From: Kathleen Shearer <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:39:52 -0400 Hi Rick, It is my understanding that in 2013-14, Elsevier’s self archiving policy stated that authors could make their Article Accepted Manuscript available via a repository immediately, unless they were required by their funders or institutions to deposit their publication in a repository. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/elsevierembargoes.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple&version=) http://web.archive.org/web/20131101155818/http://cdn.elsevier.com/assets/pdf_file/0018/121293/External_Embargo_List_2013.pdf The new 2015 policy imposes journal embargo periods for making articles open access via an institutional repository on all authors at all institutions. http://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/78476/external-embargo-list.pdf We could debate whether this is a small or a big change, but it is clearly not a change towards greater access. Besides this, there are some really important fundamental issues that are raised by this policy around who should determine the conditions of researcher sharing and open access. Should it be the scholarly community (e.g. funding agencies, institutions and researchers) or should it be publishers? Perhaps now is an appropriate time for our community/ies to engage in such a discussion. Best, Kathleen On Jun 22, 2015, at 6:53 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:40:49 +0000 I would still be very interested in answers to my two questions below, particularly from those who have been most critical of Elsevier’s new policy. 1. As far as anyone on this list can tell, does the matrix at http://www.slideshare.net/aliciawise/whats-changed-in-sharing-policy fully and accurately represent what has changed with the new policy? 2. If so, it appears to me that Elsevier’s new sharing policy actually represents a net increase in liberality when it comes to sharing and posting ― am I mistaken about that? --- Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]