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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.

1. "Fluffeh" - http://soylentnews.org/~Fluffeh/
2. "American Society of Civil Engineers" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Civil_Engineers#Journals
3. "cracking down on researchers" - http://torrentfreak.com/publishers-targets-university-researchers-pirating-articles-140516/
4. "lhsi" - http://soylentnews.org/~lhsi/

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