[From “Open Access News”:http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/20040523_fosblogarchive.html#a108570473636981236]:
bq. Elsevier now permits important kinds of postprint archiving. Authors may post the final editions of their full-text Elsevier articles to their personal web sites or their institutional repositories, but not to repositories elsewhere. The OA [Open Access] edition must be author-made, not Elsevier’s PDF or HTML, and must include a link either to the journal’s home page or the article’s DOI. Stevan Harnad “announced the good news”:https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/759.html to multiple listservs, based on an email from Karen Hunter, Elsevier’s Senior VP for Strategy. (PS: This is a breakthrough. Permission for postprint archiving is all that authors need to provide OA to the final, peer-reviewed editions of their own work. Elsevier deserves our thanks for adopting this most helpful policy. Elsevier authors –past, present, and future — should take advantage of the new policy without delay. Other publishers should imitate it. Universities that haven’t already done so should accommodate it by launching institutional repositories.)
I have been agonizing over signing over my copyright to an old manuscript of mine (”A Minimal Theory of Adverbial Quantification”:http://web.mit.edu/fintel/www/minimal.pdf) to Elsevier for publication in a long-overdue collection (”Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning”:http://www.elsevier.com/wps/product/cws_home/639475). With this new policy, I feel better about that, although I would really prefer to keep my copyright and just assign a non-exclusive license to the publisher.
As I said in my reply to Greg’s thoughts on publishing books 1, the advantage of circulating material through the internet is that it overcomes certain gaps between richer and poorer Countries. One of them is acessibility to scientific works.
For instance, we all now can access da Costa’s most recent work on Paraconsistency 2 from any place in the world, or the complete list of works by Greg 3.
May 31st, 2004, at 12:54 pm #But, as I can see, there is always this problem of making links work and having to learn different codes for enabling links.
May 31st, 2004, at 12:59 pm #