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Publisher Targets Authors for Pirating Their Own Work

posted by martyb on Sunday May 18 2014, @10:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the publish-AND-perish? dept.

Fluffeh writes:

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.

Thanks go to lhsi who also sent news of this article to us.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by plnykecky on Sunday May 18 2014, @01:05PM

    by plnykecky (4276) on Sunday May 18 2014, @01:05PM (#44855)

    ...to be really very US-specific. From my own experience, if I need a paywalled paper and my institution does not have a subscription (which is a very common case around EU), there is still a handful of illegal and untrackable options:

    1) ask my librarian, he will get it from some colleague in another institution
    2) ask a friend in another institution
    2) mail the author, who will be happy that somebody reads their work
    4) go to certain .ru site that hosts more copyrighted material than Aaron (eternal glory to him!) ever dreamed to set free

    I know in US such thing can get really tough, but I wish you could understand that common people here really do not give a **** about copyright at all!

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 18 2014, @01:15PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday May 18 2014, @01:15PM (#44858) Journal

    What would we do without Russia ;-)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 18 2014, @03:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 18 2014, @03:20PM (#44884)

      The Pirate Bay.