To the question that Dr. Harnad has posted:
Does ACS endorse the posting of authors' peer-reviewed final drafts on
their own institutional websites for scholarly purposes without fee?
The answer is: No, such posting is not endorsed or allowed. By the ACS
Articles on Request program, authors may post a link that directs the
user to the final published article on the ACS web site. Many ACS
authors have taken advantage of this free option, to good effect.
Adam
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> Poster: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: ACS Author Choice Program
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> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Adam Chesler (American Chemical Society) wrote:
>
> > Recent posts to the listserv have contributed to a misunderstanding
> > about the ACS AuthorChoice program to provide open article access...
> >
> > The ACS Author Choice option is for authors who wish or need to
> > sponsor open access to their published research articles. It allows
> > immediate open web access to the final published article as
> delivered
> > from the ACS web site, in exchange for a fixed fee paid by
> the author
> > or author's sponsor...
> > ACS AuthorChoice also licenses authors to post electronic copies of
> > published articles on their own personal websites...
> > for scholarly purposes...
>
> Does ACS endorse the posting of authors' peer-reviewed final
> drafts on their own institutional website for scholarly
> purpose without fee?
> (In other words, is ACS now "Green" on author self-archiving,
> as the following American Learned Societies are?)
>
> American Anthropological Association
> American Association for the Advancement of Science
> American Astronomical Society
> American College of Sports Medicine
> American Dairy Science Association
> American Diabetes Association
> American Economic Association
> American Geophysical Union
> American Institute of Biological Sciences
> American Institute of Physics
> American Library Association
> American Mathematical Society
> American Meteorological Society
> American Physical Society
> American Psychological Association
> American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
> American Society for Cell Biology
> American Society for Clinical Investigation
> American Society for Microbiology
> American Society of Hematology
> American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
> American Vacuum Society
> Acoustical Society of America
> Ecological Society of America
> Optical Society of America
> http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html
>
> That is the only point at issue. The understanding is that
> ACS authors are asked to pay to do this: Is this the case?
>
> (If I have misunderstood, a profound apology is in order.)
>
> > ACS permits within the first 12
> > months of publication up to 50 complimentary article downloads to
> > interested readers who are not already ACS subscribers; at
> 12 months
> > and thereafter, reader access via these author-directed
> links is unlimited.
>
> My question is about the 51st to the Nth would-be user
> request during the first 12 months from the date of
> acceptance for publication, not just about the first 50.
> However, the draft in question need not be the official ACS
> PDF: just the author's final accepted version:
>
> Does ACS endorse the posting of authors' peer-reviewed final
> drafts on their own institutional websites for scholarly
> purposes without fee?
>
> Stevan Harnad
> American Scientist Open Access Forum
> http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-
> Access-Forum.html
>
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