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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 JoeMerchant on Friday May 12 2017, @05:24PM
My first job put me "near" academic authors, I helped them with some aspects of their papers, and I was named author (3rd or 4th place) on a few. As the years went by we started working with some pretty intense post-docs doing cutting edge stuff and I started actually authoring word-for-word the pieces of the papers that involved the equipment we developed and provided for the work. I _assumed_ that since I was reviewing final drafts and seeing 10-20% of the content in the paper being submitted as-written word for word by me that I would at least be named somewhere on the byline for these dozen or so publications. But, alas, the academics "needed" the authorship more than me, so they got the author slots and I just got paid. Paid 3x as much per year as those high power post-docs, so I'm not complaining, but it's interesting how the world works like that.
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