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Ross Mounce knows that when he shares his research papers online, he may be doing something illegal — if he uploads the final version of a paper that has appeared in a subscription-based journal. Publishers who own copyright on such papers frown on their unauthorized appearance online. Yet when Mounce has uploaded his paywalled articles to ResearchGate, a scholarly social network likened to Facebook for scientists, publishers haven't asked him to take them down. "I'm aware that I might be breaching copyright," says Mounce, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. "But I don't really care."
Mounce isn't alone in his insouciance. The unauthorized sharing of copyrighted research papers is on the rise, say analysts who track the publishing industry. Faced with this problem, science publishers seem to be changing tack in their approach to researchers who breach copyright. Instead of demanding that scientists or network operators take their papers down, some publishers are clubbing together to create systems for legal sharing of articles — called fair sharing — which could also help them to track the extent to which scientists share paywalled articles online.
Sharing information is antithetical to scientific progress.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday May 12 2017, @12:22PM
These science publishers are stealing the investment from taxpayers and the interest of citizens to take part of what they gave up resources to the researchers to conduct their business. So if they want to continue the hijacking of public resources they can pay for the research they hijack and the funds for research that didn't turn out so well because that also got to be funded as will often not know who makes the smash hit publication.
It's all part of the socialize costs and privatize profits. While screwing citizens in general by foremostly denying them knowledge to change their lifes payed by them giving up resources for.. maybe nothing anymore.
I recognize this "fair sharing" . It's the same MAFIAA code word(s) used before to screw people and do a Orwellian new speak gaslighting on the public.
Free science: https://s.c#i[-(h!u%b¤.+a._c
(remove everything but alphanumeric and . : / - to get the address)