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Thursday, November 20, 2008

APA revises its self-archiving policy

The American Psychological Association revised its self-archiving policy on November 1.

Both the old and new policies say that "Authors...may post a copy of the final manuscript...on their Web site or their employer's server...."  However, the old policy added that "APA does not permit archiving with any other non-APA repositories" and the new policy deletes that rule.

The deletion looks progressive, removing a restriction on the set of eligible repositories.  But the unchanged parts of the policy may leave that restriction in place.  May APA authors now deposit in a disciplinary repository, such as the Social Science Research Network?  It's not clear.

PS:  For background, see our past posts on the evolving APA self-archiving policy.