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The American Society of Civil Engineers is cracking down on researchers who post their own articles on their personal websites. The publisher, which owns dozens of highly cited journals, claims that the authors commit copyright infringement by sharing their work in public. To make their work easier to access, many researchers host copies of their work on their personal profiles, usually hosted by their university. Interestingly, however, this usually means that they are committing copyright infringement.
While many journals allow this type of limited non-commercial infringement by the authors, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) clearly doesn't. The professional association publishes dozens of journals and during the past few weeks began a crack down on "pirating" researchers.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday May 18 2014, @12:52PM
Perhaps authors of the papers shouldn't sign away rights of the results from tax payer funded research? or they could do so by refunding the state with interest?
The journal could of course buy the results from the institution that funded it.
The situation where tax payers fund research and journals holds these results at ransom is simple theft.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by MickLinux on Monday May 19 2014, @02:36AM
How about this: get a law passed that authors at publicly funded institutions do not have the right to sign away ownesrship, not having full ownership.
Or better, get it declared through the courts. When the ASCE goes after a university or professor, the university sues the ASCE as plaintiff, pointing out that THEY didn't sign away their rights, and that the ASCE has violated THEIR ownership.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 19 2014, @11:48AM
I like this ;-)
(until the university management gets "lobbyied")