Hi there.
I am John Bond from Riverwinds Consulting and this is Publishing Defined.
Today I am going to talk about embargoes in academic publishing.
First an embargo, in this usage, is a period of time during which access to academic journal
articles is not allowed by users who have not paid for access or have access through
their institution.
A publisher does this to protect the journal's subscription revenue or member benefit.
This contention, that an embargo period helps protect the business model, is obviously debated
by many.
Surveys have been published that refute this idea.
An embargo period might be a few months or years.
There are two main types: a so called moving wall for a fixed period of time, say 12 months.
This means the restricted access is always 12 months, in this instance, from the current
date.
Another option is a fixed date such as January 1st of that year.
This means that all content prior to that date would require some kind of subscription
or membership to view it, but all older content, after that date, would be freely available
in an open access fashion.
Prior to the end of any embargo period, the title and other bibliographic information
and the abstract would be available to the reader.
This embargo on access to scientific content is not to be confused with news embargoes
that are commonly applied to the content in health-related news regarding upcoming journal
articles, such as in JAMA or the Lancet.
Journalists who commonly receive a press release and or access to the full article must hold
back reporting on it until an agreed upon date.
This agreement, sometimes called the Ingelfinger Rule, allows for research to be done by the
journalist prior to publication.
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