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Mon 12 Feb 2018 4:46PM

Embargo

VV Victor Venema Public Seen by 374

A paper of mine was just accepted for a journal that has a 12-month post-print embargo. Would it be a useful feature if one could upload a manuscript that is published automatically when the embargo period is over?

When I previously uploaded manuscripts, I did not notice such an option, so I presume it does not exist yet, but maybe I was also not paying attention.

DU

Mon 12 Feb 2018 4:56PM

I think this is a great idea! I work for a publisher and we often encounter issues with non-compliance of our embargoes (ie papers are posted too early), but equally, I am sure once a year has passed many forget to upload papers. If there were a way to upload it when you are thinking about it and put a hold on the publication date, I am sure we would see a lot more papers being self-archived.

JF

Jamie Farquharson Mon 12 Feb 2018 5:13PM

Is it likely that this will be a common enough occurrence to warrant including it as a feature? I imagine it would be much easier to rely on the authors to upload their post-embargo article, rather than programmatically including an optional embargo in the EarthArXiv platform.

VV

Victor Venema Tue 13 Feb 2018 11:47AM

Sounds like this feature is indeed not yet available. At least Wiley has this policy for all post-prints, so it would affect a decent percentage of all papers. For these papers I would expect a large uptick in self-archiving. When your paper is published you promote it, a year later you are working on other topics.

I would suggest to wait a few more days for technical comments and to put up a poll at the end of the week to get an impression whether our community thinks such a feature would be helpful.

SL

Sabine Lengger Wed 14 Feb 2018 12:14PM

It is also worth noting that some publishers (and with some I mean specifically Elsevier) clarify embargo periods, which vary by journal, by uploading an obscure pdf list every year. In institutional repositories, librarians are tasked to catch up on this.

VV

Poll Created Thu 15 Feb 2018 5:37PM

Embargo Closed Thu 22 Feb 2018 5:02PM

Some publishers have embargo periods for post-prints (e.g. Wiley). It is easy to forget to upload the post-print after the embargo. Shall we ask OSF to implement the option of posting a document after a certain period, for example when the embargo period of a post-print has expired?

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 85.7% 12  
Abstain 14.3% 2  
Disagree 0.0% 0  
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 0  

14 of 14 people have participated (100%)

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Anonymous
Agree
Fri 16 Feb 2018 6:30AM

Indeed I have a paper in Elseviers Results in Physics. I forgot to upload it to certain discussion fora.

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Anonymous
Agree
Tue 20 Feb 2018 6:20AM

Chris Jackson here: see my qualifier in the thread.

CJ

Christopher Jackson Sun 18 Feb 2018 8:00PM

Hmmm….good suggestion, although I am not sure where this might sit on OSF’s development schedule.

Matt: might you remind us of the best way to raise queries like this?

Thanks,

Chris


Professor Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson

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Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Imperial College

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UK

Email: [email protected] ( [email protected] )

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MS

Matt Spitzer Mon 19 Feb 2018 2:14PM

An embargo for preprint submissions has been requested, but has not been prioritized yet. In general though, you can check the public roadmap items in the attached Google Sheet, which is linked on the main OSF preprints page at osf.io/preprints. You can then email any requests to [email protected] which gets triaged every week to be added into the development queue. We try to work on a quarterly basis, where new items are added to the following quarter's list, unless we can add it something that is already slated for development sooner.

VV

Victor Venema Mon 19 Feb 2018 2:56PM

That link seems to go elsewhere. Is this the document with the requests?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SocElbBjc_Nhme4-SJv2_zytBd1ys8R5aZDb3POe94c/edit#gid=1340026270

So if the vote stays like this we could join PsyArXiv, MarXiv in supporting a post-later feature for embargoed manuscripts and hope this option gets listed higher?

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