The terms of the OA experiment at Elsevier's Information and Computation have changed slightly since the experiment was first announced on August 12. At that time, the key section said this:
The Editorial Board and Publisher of Information and Computation are pleased to announce that for one year, effective immediately, online access to all journal issues back to 1995 will be available without charge. This includes unrestricted downloading of articles in pdf format.
On August 15, however, the same section was slightly altered:
The Editorial Board and Publisher of Information and Computation are pleased to announce that for one year, effective immediately, electronic access to all journal issues back to 1995 will be available without charge. This includes downloading of all articles in pdf format for individual use.
I&C changed "unrestrictive downloading" to "downloading...for individual use".
(PS: I don't know the explanation but I have a guess. The Elsevier self-archiving policy allows the archiving of the author's manuscript but not the publisher's PDF. The original statement of the I&C experiment might have been read to allow archiving of the PDF. I'm interviewing the principals for the September issue of SOAN and may have better information by then.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/16/2005 07:43:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
