While looking at the Journal of Legal Studies for possible submission, I
noted the University of Chicago Press is green for its journals. It allows
non-commercial deposit, specifically including institutional repository
deposit. There is an interesting element in it's embargo period:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/rights.html
...
Can I include my published paper in an official institutional repository?
You may place your published paper in a non-commercial data repository
maintained by an institution of which you are a member, provided that all
relevant conditions described in this FAQ and on the journal's home page are
met. Your paper may be made publicly available after the appropriate embargo
period* has been observed. You are responsible for informing the manager of
the institutional repository of the embargo period that must be observed.
*Embargo periods are as follows: American Journal of Human Genetics: 6
months; Astrophysical Journal and Supplement Series, Astronomical Journal,
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: 3 years; all other
journals: 12 months.
...
As has been stated here many times, ID/OA with an embargo period is the
minimum "green policy" and allows the eprint capability to produce
more-or-less OA even within the embargo.
The reason I think this is of interest to the community here is the length of
the embargo period for the three astronomy/astrophysics journals. Has anyone
else come across a THREE YEAR embargo period before?
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Received on Wed Apr 11 2007 - 13:01:26 BST