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Publisher Targets Authors for Pirating Their Own Work

posted by martyb on Sunday May 18 2014, @10:45AM   
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.

• Re:Open Access Journals (Score: 2) by evilviper on Tuesday May 20 2014, @09:17AM

  by evilviper (1760) on Tuesday May 20 2014, @09:17AM (#45539) Homepage Journal

  There is a difference between fee-based and no-fee open-access journals. I was proposing the latter.

  You might as well be talking about magic pixie dust. Extremely few no-fee open-access journals exist, and those tend to rely on the same grants that funds public research, so it's still a higher public cost.

  Your comment makes you sound like a shill for Elsevier.

  No, it makes me sound like a rational human being, who has some knowledge of the subject others are spouting stupid statements about.

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