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Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-peer-reviewed-study-of-face-meeting-palm dept.

David Gerard writes "Elsevier, in final desperation mode, is going after authors sharing their own papers online. Academia.edu has told several researchers that Elsevier 'is currently upping the ante in its opposition to academics sharing their own papers online.' This is the sounds of a boycott biting."

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  1. Breach of contract, copyright infringement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree that sharing these papers online is the right thing to do, but then maybe they shouldn't sign a contract giving up the right to do it?

    1. Re:Breach of contract, copyright infringement by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Interesting

      You can't possibly infringe on copyright by sharing your own work. (At least not where I live. People in some countries may be fucked, though.)

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    2. Re:Breach of contract, copyright infringement by mspohr · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The people who actually did the work and wrote the manual or designed the project.
      Corporations are not people. Corporations cannot create any "works". People create works. People should own their creations.

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    3. Re:Breach of contract, copyright infringement by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Interesting

      But Alicia Wise, Director of Access & Policy at Elsevier, says that couldn't possibly have happened!

      I've called it to her attention. Possibly she will even respond! Who knows?

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  2. Upset your suppliers, become irrelevant? by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't think of a better way to destroy your product than to annoy the people who create and deliver to you (at zero price) the basic ingredient to the product you sell.

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  3. Re:they've got it backwards by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, that's kind of the issue. Academics are already boycotting Elsevier. Thing is, academics are focused on research, not on publishing, so many aren't even aware of the boycott, others care less about their rights to host their own papers than they do in publishing in the highest impact journal they can. Plus, few papers are published with a single author. On my paper, I suggested we not submit there. My boss stifled a laugh. It's published with Elsevier. I occasionally get requests for it from researchers who don't have access to that journal. I guess I'm going to have to start worrying that they are undercover Elsevier agents.