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On Oct 3, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Daniel Payne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Incidentally, I've just heard back from OUP regarding a book chapter permission request I sent, who mentioned the following:
 
" We are currently reviewing our position on archiving and embargo periods, so I wanted to wait for the updated policy document before advising you. It is due out this month and I will get back to you as a priority."
 
So it seems OUP are also due for a change shortly.

OUP's policy was already worse than even CUP's current back-slid policy. No news here except maybe what they mean to say about book chapters.

If you want to see the absurd smokescreen of parti-colored FUD that OUP has launched to confuse and discourage authors, go to http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php and enter oxford to see the shameful mess.

Romeo is not without a share of the blame for this because they practically invited publishers to do this by faithfully cataloguing every arbitrary whim publishers toyed with including in their policies instead of refusing to catalogue anything but the bare basics:

(1) Can the refereed preprint be made open access (Gratis) immediately or is OA embargoed?

If yes, then the publisher (or journal) is GREEN.

If not the publisher (or journal) is GRAY.

(2) If OA is embargoed, how long: 3 mo? 6 mo? 12 mo? Longer?

That's all. All the Romeo colours are useless (and incoherent: blues if green, green is green, yellow is gray, white is gray) and just encourage everyone to spend their time doing chromatic fantasies instead depositing articles. And the only Oxford/Romeo greens are paid Gold!

But the Liège Model  Mandate and the HEFCE/REF2020 Mandate trump all this FUD and foolishness: Just deposit immediately upon acceptance in any case, and then, if you have the inclination or the stomach to wade through the FUD to decide whether and when when to make the deposit OA, go ahead. 

Meanwhile, either make it OA immediately or rely on the repository's copy-request Button.

(Yech -- the look at the Romeo/Oxford search output is enough to elicit reverse peristalsis and projectile emesis...)

Fed up and dyspeptic Archivangelist 

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