Comments on: Publisher Targets University Researchers for “Pirating” Their Own Articles

By: TFlowboat

TFlowboat — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:05:00 +0000

Presses are different from the peer reviewed research that I suppose should have limited my earlier statement. That’s what the original article talked about, so I may have been overly broad.

The copyright and patent stuff seems very shady, however. I thought that was all contracted with outside companies. A lot of that stuff does go against many university charters, although it is still done. I don’t realize how much money they make through those methods. Where did you learn about the money distribution?

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Thu, 29 May 2014 18:21:24 +0000

[…] “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.” http://torrentfreak.com/publishers-targets-university-researchers-pirating-articles-140516/ […]

By: Open access update May 2014 | Australian Open Access Support Group

Open access update May 2014 | Australian Open Access Support Group — Thu, 29 May 2014 02:59:25 +0000

[…] There have been over 1200 requests to Google to take down content. This move reflects Elsevier’s requests to take down the publisher’s versions of work at the end of 2013. It has caused considerable discussion including “Publisher targets university researchers for ‘pirating’ their own research“ […]

By: Jick

Jick — Fri, 23 May 2014 03:35:00 +0000

I love it! Nothing could be more effective in driving authors away from paywalling publishers and into the arms of http://oPeer.org !

By: Neel Gupta

Neel Gupta — Thu, 22 May 2014 16:40:00 +0000

Monopolistic journals = Ridiculous

By: Huh?? | A Moral Outrage

Huh?? | A Moral Outrage — Wed, 21 May 2014 22:22:29 +0000

[…] As TorrentFreak reports, the American Society of Civil Engineers has taken it up a level, hiring one of the more well-known copyright enforcement companies out there, Digimarc, to go around issuing DMCA takedown on academics uploading their own works: […]

By: LegalDude

LegalDude — Wed, 21 May 2014 17:55:00 +0000

I’m a capitalist in the sense that I capitalize (create personal financial capital) on any situation with which I choose to become involved.

So, it looks like I’m capitalizing on my actions which you position as communist/socialist.

It doesn’t matter what anyone chooses to call it as long as money flows my way.

By: Darren Forster

Darren Forster — Wed, 21 May 2014 09:58:00 +0000

The best solution is that in future all people wanting to publish their own articles for free on the internet stay away from ACSE. See how long they last when their publishing pool dries up – then when they’re swallowed up by the big HOLE they’ve created they could then come back and change the C to an R as more proof of what they are (figure it out!!).

With the modern internet their must be a lot more places to publish documents without signing your own copyright to them away to a third party.

By: Thomas Arildsen

Thomas Arildsen — Wed, 21 May 2014 09:35:00 +0000

Exactly, and adding to the problem is the fact that here in Denmark, part of the public funding for universities is distributed according to the university’s number of publications in “approved” journals, making publications in the right journals worth up to about $6,000.

By: LegalDude

LegalDude — Tue, 20 May 2014 22:26:00 +0000

I was essentially correct in recounting the local legend. You again prove the point that casual conversations with engineers is anything but casual. They never seem to socialize well with “regular people”.