Re: Embargoes on Deposit in Repositories

[David Prosser <david.prosser@rluk.ac.uk>]

I think that Sandy's attempts at clarity risk confusing matters. 
'Green OA versions' can mean anything from authors' unrefereed 
manuscripts, authors' refereed manuscripts, or even the final 
'version of record' (there are some publishers, not many but 
some, who allow the author to deposit the publishers' PDF - see 
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html for details).

The OAIG statement I drew attention to is about authors' 
manuscripts, exactly as I said.

David



On 30 Mar 2011, at 01:18, Sandy Thatcher wrote:

> Just to be clear here, this is in reference to Green OA versions,
> not versions of record. The issue of multiple versions of
> articles, and the adequacy thereof for different purposes, is the
> subject of a special issue of Against the Grain co-edited by Todd
> Carpenter and me  coming out in April.
>
> Sandy Thatcher
>
>> The UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG), of which RLUK is
>> a member, has issued a call to institutions not to agree to
>> publisher requests for embargoes on the deposit of authors'
>> manuscripts in repositories.  Details at:
>>
>> http://213.133.67.199/open-access/?page_id=258
>>
>> David
>>
>> David C Prosser
>> Executive Director, RLUK