Re: The definitive answer from Wiley-Blackwell

From: R. Stephen Berry <berry_at_UCHICAGO.EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:30:01 -0500

To which does Wiley Interscience belong?  Wiley and Sons?

        Thanks,
        Steve Berry

      I don't think anything like a definitive answer has been
      reached, insofar as Wiley's Green-status is concerned
      (i.e., whether or not Wiley endorses immediate author
      self-archiving of the final, refereed draft (postprint).

      First, there appear to be three Wileys:

      John Wiley & Sons (GREEN)
      Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin (GREEN)
      Wiley-Blackwell (GRAY)

      Second, the three Wileys have inconsistent self-archiving
      policy statements -- inconsistent among the three of
      them, and inconsistent within each.

      Wiley-Blackwell says this:

      Wiley-Blackwell journal authors can use their accepted
      article in a number of ways, including in publications of
      their own work and course packs in their institution. An
      electronic copy of the article (with a link to the online
      version) can be posted on their own website, employer's
      website/repository and on free public servers in the
      subject area. For full details see
      authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp.

      Wiley-VCH says this (sample from one of its journals):



      and  John Wiley & Sons  says this (sample from one of its
      journals):



      Now let me give some sensible practical advice to authors
      and Repository Managers alike:

      (1) Under all circumstances, deposit the final, refereed,
      accepted draft of your journal article (postprint) in
      your Institutional Repository (IR), immediately upon
      acceptance for publication. There is no need whatsoever
      to make a single exception.

      (2) Unless you are certain that you have reason not to,
      set access to that deposited draft as Open Access (OA)
      immediately upon deposit. (Otherwise, you can set access
      as Closed Access, for the duration of any publisher
      embargo you wish to honor.)

      (3) The only thing even remotely at issue is whether or
      not, if you deposit a document in your IR and make it OA,
      you receive a take-down notice from the publisher.

      (4) If you receive a take-down notice and you wish to
      honor it, set access as Closed Access for the duration of
      any publisher embargo you wish to honor.

      And remember that if the millions of articles that have
      been made OA (by computer scientists, physicists,
      economists, and all other disciplines) since the 1980's
      had waited (or asked) for a clear, unambiguous green
      light from each publisher, we would have virtually none
      of those millions articles accessed, used and built upon
      across those decades by the many users whose institutions
      could not afford access to the publisher's subscription
      edition.

      A word to the wise,

      Stevan Harnad

      On 21-May-09, at 6:58 AM, C.J.Smith wrote:
            [Apologies for cross-posting]

            In the Wiley-Blackwell copyright assignment
            form, which most authors publishing in this
            company's journals will sign, it states
            (under item 'C.2. Permitted Uses by
            Contributor > Accepted Version') that:

            "Re-use of the accepted and peer-reviewed
            (but not final) version of the Contribution
            shall be by separate agreement with
            Wiley-Blackwell"

            I took this to mean that authors can, if they
            want to, approach Wiley-Blackwell on an
            article-by-article basis for permission to
            deposit their final draft manuscripts in
            their institutional repository.

            However, having chased up permission with
            Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of an author here
            at the Open University, I received (after a
            number of email exchanges) the following
            (apparently definitive) answer from their
            Associate Permissions Manager:

            "The submission version is the only version
            we allow to be placed into institutional
            repositories. We do not allow the post-peer
            review article, the author's final draft, or
            any other version to be deposited. Therefore,
            I can confirm that permission is hereby
            refused in this case."

            So, unfortunately, given the size of
            Wiley-Blackwell (fourth largest academic
            journals publisher?), it seems we have a
            disappointing barrier to Green OA. Of course,
            Wiley has always not permitted final draft
            self-archiving, but it now appears that in
            merging with Blackwell they have stuck with
            this policy rather than embracing
            Blackwell's.


            Although Wiley-Blackwell do offer compliance
            with the 'major' funder mandates (e.g. NIH),
            it leaves me wondering how they intend to
            serve their authors who are mandated (for
            example) by one of the UK Research Councils.
            Have they thought this through? Are they
            prepared to lose authors who (in theory at
            least) could not possibly publish with them
            because they are not permitted to
            self-archive?



            Colin Smith
            Research Repository Manager
            Open Research Online (ORO)
            Open University Library
            Walton Hall
            Milton Keynes
            MK7 6AA

            Tel: +44(0)1908 332971

            Email: c.j.smith_at_open.ac.uk
            Web: http://oro.open.ac.uk
            Blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/oro
            Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/smithcolin




            ---------------------------------
            The Open University is incorporated by Royal
            Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in
            England & Wales and a charity registered in
            Scotland (SC 038302).




      I don't think anything like a definitive answer has been
      reached, insofar as Wiley's Green-status is concerned
      (i.e., whether or not Wiley endorses immediate author
      self-archiving of the final, refereed draft (postprint).


      First, there appear to be three Wileys:


      John Wiley & Sons (GREEN)

      Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin (GREEN) 

      Wiley-Blackwell (GRAY)


      Second, the three Wileys have inconsistent self-archiving
      policy statements -- inconsistent among the three of
      them, and inconsistent within each.


      Wiley-Blackwell says this:


            Wiley-Blackwell journal authors can use their
            accepted article in a number of ways,
            including in publications of their own work
            and course packs in their institution. An
            electronic copy of the article (with a link
            to the online version) can be posted on their
            own website, employer's website/repository
            and on free public servers in the subject
            area. For full details see
            authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp.


      Wiley-VCH says this (sample from one of its journals):


            [IMAGE]


      and  John Wiley & Sons  says this (sample from one of its
      journals):


            [IMAGE]


      Now let me give some sensible practical advice to authors
      and Repository Managers alike:


            (1) Under all circumstances, deposit the
            final, refereed, accepted draft of your
            journal article (postprint) in your
            Institutional Repository (IR), immediately
            upon acceptance for publication. There is no
            need whatsoever to make a single exception.

            (2) Unless you are certain that you have
            reason not to, set access to that deposited
            draft as Open Access (OA) immediately upon
            deposit. (Otherwise, you can set access
            as Closed Access, for the duration of any
            publisher embargo you wish to honor.)

            (3) The only thing even remotely at issue is
            whether or not, if you deposit a document in
            your IR and make it OA, you receive a
            take-down notice from the publisher.

            (4) If you receive a take-down notice and you
            wish to honor it, set access as Closed Access
            for the duration of any publisher embargo you
            wish to honor.


      And remember that if the millions of articles that have
      been made OA (by computer scientists, physicists,
      economists, and all other disciplines) since the 1980's
      had waited (or asked) for a clear, unambiguous green
      light from each publisher, we would have virtually none
      of those millions articles accessed, used and built upon
      across those decades by the many users whose institutions
      could not afford access to the publisher's subscription
      edition.


      A word to the wise,


      Stevan Harnad


      On 21-May-09, at 6:58 AM, C.J.Smith wrote:


            [Apologies for cross-posting]

             

            In the Wiley-Blackwell copyright assignment
            form, which most authors publishing in this
            company's journals will sign, it states
            (under item 'C.2. Permitted Uses by
            Contributor > Accepted Version') that:

             

            "Re-use of the accepted and peer-reviewed
            (but not final) version of the Contribution
            shall be by separate agreement with
            Wiley-Blackwell"

             

            I took this to mean that authors can, if they
            want to, approach Wiley-Blackwell on an
            article-by-article basis for permission to
            deposit their final draft manuscripts in
            their institutional repository.

             

            However, having chased up permission with
            Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of an author here
            at the Open University, I received (after a
            number of email exchanges) the following
            (apparently definitive) answer from their
            Associate Permissions Manager:

             

            "The submission version is the only version
            we allow to be placed into institutional
            repositories. We do not allow the post-peer
            review article, the author's final draft, or
            any other version to be deposited. Therefore,
            I can confirm that permission is hereby
            refused in this case."

             

            So, unfortunately, given the size of
            Wiley-Blackwell (fourth largest academic
            journals publisher?), it seems we have a
            disappointing barrier to Green OA. Of course,
            Wiley has always not permitted final draft
            self-archiving, but it now appears that in
            merging with Blackwell they have stuck with
            this policy rather than embracing
            Blackwell's.

             

            Although Wiley-Blackwell do offer compliance
            with the 'major' funder mandates (e.g. NIH),
            it leaves me wondering how they intend to
            serve their authors who are mandated (for
            example) by one of the UK Research Councils.
            Have they thought this through? Are they
            prepared to lose authors who (in theory at
            least) could not possibly publish with them
            because they are not permitted to
            self-archive?

             

             

             

            Colin Smith
            Research Repository Manager
            Open Research Online (ORO)
            Open University Library
            Walton Hall
            Milton Keynes
            MK7 6AA

            Tel: +44(0)1908 332971

             

            Email: c.j.smith_at_open.ac.uk

            Web: http://oro.open.ac.uk

            Blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/oro

            Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/smithcolin

             

             

             


            ---------------------------------
            The Open University is incorporated by Royal
            Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in
            England & Wales and a charity registered in
            Scotland (SC 038302).




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