Re: European Research Council Mandate Green OA Self-Archiving

Hi.

I am likely missing the point here:

> "The ERC requires that all peer-reviewed
publications from 
> ERC-funded research projects be deposited on
publication into 
> an appropriate research repository where available,
such as 
> PubMed Central, ArXiv or an institutional repository,
and 
> subsequently made Open Access within 6 months of
publication."

To place the paper on ArXiv is not the same as to provide an
"Open Access"?

Doesn't the former and latter just mean: "availability
to all"?

And if a publisher objects to a 6-month period and insists
on 12-month one,
for example? I should not sign the deal or I am defended by
law if I break
it?

Ari Belenkiy

Mathematics Department
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan 52900 ISRAEL