Copyright compliance and infringement in ResearchGate full-text journal articles

Jamali, Hamid R.

doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2291-4

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“…None of the major publishers allows sharing of the final published version of record on commercial sites like ResearchGate, unless, of course, the article was published under a CC-BY license. Yet the publisher's PDF is the version that 81.8% of our survey respondents reported posting on ResearchGate, confirming the findings of other recent studies (Borrego, 2017;Jamali, 2017;Laakso et al, 2017;Tenopir et al, 2016). Even some publishers that allow authors to post accepted manuscripts on non-commercial sites including IRs and personal websites often explicitly prohibit or limit posting on commercial sites like ResearchGate (American Association for the Advancement of Science, n. Finally, our statistical analysis of the survey results, in which contributing full-texts to ResearchGate and compliance with the OA Policy were positively correlated, shows that faculty are not using ResearchGate to the exclusion of the institutional repository.…”

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Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

Lovett

Rathemacher

Boukari

et al. 2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTIONThe popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu indicates that scholars want to share their work, yet for universities with open access (OA) policies, these sites may be competing with institutional repositories (IRs) for content. This article seeks to reveal researcher practices, attitudes, and motivations around uploading their work to ResearchGate and complying with an institutional OA Policy through a study of faculty at the University of Rhode Island (URI). METHODS We conducted a population study to examine the participation by 558 full-time URI faculty members in the OA Policy and ResearchGate followed by a survey of 728 full-time URI faculty members about their participation in the two services. DISCUSSION The majority of URI faculty do not participate in the OA Policy or use ResearchGate. Authors' primary motivations for participation are sharing their work more broadly and increasing its visibility and impact. Faculty who participate in ResearchGate are more likely to participate in the OA Policy, and vice versa. The fact that the OA Policy targets the author manuscript and not the final published article constitutes a significant barrier to participation. CONCLUSION Librarians should not view academic social networks as a threat to open access. Authors' strong preference for sharing the final, published version of their articles provides support for calls to hasten the transition to a Gold OA publishing system. Misunderstandings about the OA Policy and copyright indicate a need for librarians to conduct greater education and outreach to authors about options for legally sharing articles. Received: 01/26/2017 Accepted: 06/20/2017 Correspondence: Andrée Rathemacher, 269 Library, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA, andree@uri.edu 2. Throughout the survey, faculty reported a strong aversion to sharing the author manuscript version of their articles. This was the most significant barrier to participating in the OA Policy. This finding, if generalizable, should inform current discussions among OA advocates about the respective roles going forward of Green OA achieved through depositing author manuscripts in institutional repositories and Gold OA achieved at the point of publication. RESEARCH3. Our survey revealed a range of misunderstandings about the IR, OA policies, and copyright. For example, many respondents believe that the legality of posting one's articles in both the IR and ResearchGate depends on publisher policy and the version of the article posted. In fact, permissions-based OA policies make it legal to post author manuscripts in the IR regardless of publisher policies, and many subscriptionaccess journals prohibit depositing any version of an article to commercial sites like ResearchGate. These misunderstandings indicate a need for librarians to conduct greater education and outreach to faculty around their options for legally sharing published articles. INTRODUCTIONFrom electronic journals and repositories to soci...

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Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

Lovett

Rathemacher

Boukari

et al. 2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…On the other hand, 60% agreed or strongly agreed that they should be entitled to upload their work to SCNs, regardless. Our finding that most respondents (79%) say they do check copyright before uploading publications to SCNs is also at odds with another recent study 7 which found that, in a sample of 500 full-text articles on ResearchGate, 40% contravened copyright.…”

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Understanding and supporting researchers’ choices in sharing their publications: the launch of the FairShare Network and Shareable PDF

Rapple¹

2018

Insights the UKSG Journal

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Researchers have for many years had access to new platforms and channels for networking and sharing resources, but the pace of growth in their usage of these networks has substantially increased recently. This has led to full-text sharing on a scale that concerns publishers and libraries, because of the proportion of such sharing that infringes copyright. This article summarizes key findings of a 2017 survey that explored researchers' awareness of and behaviours in relation to scholarly collaboration networks and other emerging mechanisms for discovering and gaining access to content, along with their views on copyright. The article also describes 'Shareable PDF', a new approach to PDF-based sharing that better enables such sharing to be measured and contextualized, and which has recently been successfully launched with authors and readers.

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“…For example, many cite copyright confusion as an issue contributing to difficulties in populating IRs-authors worry that depositing their work in IRs may be in breach of copyright [4,47,48]. However, paradoxically, Jamali highlights the same issue of low copyright literacy but actually uses it to partly explain authors' willingness to risk copyright infringement by contributing to the scholarly social network, ResearchGate [49]. The study shows that over half of a sample of 392 articles on ResearchGate were not compliant with their publisher's policy, mostly through uploading the publishers' PDF, implying a lack of understanding of (or lack of respect for) publisher copyright policies.…”

Section: Copyright and Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

The UK Scholarly Communication Licence: Attempting to Cut through the Gordian Knot of the Complexities of Funder Mandates, Publisher Embargoes and Researcher Caution in Achieving Open Access

Baldwin

Pinfield

2018

Publications

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Whilst take-up of open access (OA) in the UK is growing rapidly due partly to a number of funder mandates, managing the complexities of balancing compliance with these mandates against restrictive publisher policies and ingrained academic priorities, has resulted in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) often struggling with confused researchers, complex workflows, and rising costs. In order to try to address this situation, the UK Scholarly Communication Licence (UK-SCL) was formulated to bypass the root causes of many of these challenges by implementing a licensing mechanism for multiple-mandate compliance in one single policy. This is the first empirical study to focus on the genesis of the UK-SCL and how its implementation has been conceived thus far. A qualitative research method was used, taking the form of 14 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders from the initiative across the UK. The results indicate that those working within UK HEIs are concerned with the complexity of the current OA policy landscape and are frustrated with the inertia within the current system, which has resulted in higher costs, further publisher restrictions, and has not addressed the underlying tensions in academic culture. The UK-SCL is seen by its initiators as a way to achieve further transition towards OA and take back some element of control of the content produced at their institutions. The study concludes by modelling the ways in which the UK-SCL is intended to impact relationships between key stakeholders, and discussing possible implementation futures.

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Copyright compliance and infringement in ResearchGate full-text journal articles

Cited by 118 publications

References 24 publications

Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

Understanding and supporting researchers’ choices in sharing their publications: the launch of the FairShare Network and Shareable PDF

The UK Scholarly Communication Licence: Attempting to Cut through the Gordian Knot of the Complexities of Funder Mandates, Publisher Embargoes and Researcher Caution in Achieving Open Access

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