There has been a lot of attention given to the moves by
publishing giant Elsevier to enforce its policy regarding
authors’ rights to post his or her article on a personal website
or in an institutional repository.  Since Elsevier began sending
take down notices last fall, first to and then to individual
universities, it has become well-known that authors are allowed,
under their contracts with Elsevier, to post their “final
submitted version,” which refers to the last version of the
article, after peer-review, that is sent to the journal, but not
the final published version with whatever copy-editing and
formatting that the publisher has added.  This is a difficult
distinction for faculty authors to understand.  My colleagues
and I talk about it all the time with our faculty authors, but
they persistently do not see much difference between the two
versions, so they sometimes believe that there is little reason
to observe the distinction.  Publishers think (or at least say
publicly) that they add a lot of valu