Why not look directly at
http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
to get this breakdown in terms of journals too, rather than
just in terms of publishers? Researchers think in terms of
journals. Sometimes they don't even know who the publisher is!
Stevan Harnad
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Tomas Lundén wrote [in SOAF]:
> Hi,
>
> I have actually done this just recently (Oct 3), based on the info
> available in the Sherpa/RoMeo list. The figures are:
>
> No of publishers in total: 120.
> No of publishers that allow archiving of postprints (blue/green): 83 (69,2%).
>
> Out of these 83:
> Those who allow archiving of the publisher´s pdf: 53 (63,9%).
>
> Those who allow archiving of the author´s final refereed version: 31 (37,3%).
>
> (The reason that the figures add up to more than 100% is that one publisher
> allows both versions, the published one with a 12 month embargo. One should
> also note that most of the big commercial publishers belong to the second
> category, author version.)
>
> Note: These figures have been generated from the perspective of
> institutional repositories. That is, I only counted publishers who allow
> posting in IR´s (as opposed to authors own web pages).
>
> I did make a "liberal" interpretation of the information in the RoMeo list.
> If the info does not explicitly state that posting in IR´s is not allowed,
> I interpret it as being allowed.
> I also interpret it as, if the info does not explicitly state which version
> to use, the publisher version is allowed.
>
> So you might get slightly different figures, depending on your perspective,
> and how "liberal" your interpretation of the statements are.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomas Lundén,
> Librarian,
> Lund University Libraries,
> Sweden.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Simboli <brs4_at_Lehigh.EDU>
> Date: Monday, October 3, 2005 10:21 pm
> Subject: [SOAF] question about green policies
>
> >
> > Have statistics been generated about how many journals or
> > publishers allow
> > the first as opposed to the second below?
> >
> > --rights for authors to put up the post-print of their article,
> > defined as
> > the final draft after it has been refereed, where this post-print
> > is not
> > identical to the publisher's own finalized version (the latter
> > being the
> > one actually published)
> >
> > --rights for authors to put up the publisher's *own* finalized
> > version of
> > an article (that is, the one that is actually published).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Brian Simboli
> >
> > --
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> >
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 06 2005 - 16:55:36 BST