2008/11/26 Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_gmail.com>:
> Green OA self-archiving provides the opportunity for achieving universal OA
> precisely because it is author SELF-archiving. Thus is it is perfectly
> reasonable for Green publishers to endorse only self-archiving, not
> 3rd-party archiving, to endorse self-archiving in the author's own
> institutional repository, but not in a 3rd-party repository, and to endorse
> depositing the author's own final draft, not the publisher's draft.
Harnadian nonsense as usual.
If there is no IR for the author there is no OA in this case, because
depositing on the author's website (the only other possibility allowed
by Elsevier) doesn't fall under OA according the Berlin declaration.
If the author deposits the eprint or the IR manager in behalf of the
author is the same.
The best way for users is to have publisher's PDF OA, not publisher's
draft nor author's draft. This is the position of most scholars in the
humanities, I believe.
See also
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html
Taking the high Elsevier profit into account Elsevier bashing is only fair.
Klaus Graf
Received on Thu Nov 27 2008 - 04:44:07 GMT