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Are there any ethical or legal issues when printing large texts from primary sources? [closed]
I am writing a secondary History textbook. It is quite nearly done, but I am required to integrate some primary source materials, such as diaries, log entries, letters, etc.
The textbook spans the ...
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Is it ethical to use an illegal pdf of a book that you bought?
Let’s say the situation is this: you bought a physical copy of a textbook, and for whatever reason you want to view a pdf version of said book, maybe so that you don’t have to carry it around, etc., ...
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Copyright Rules Regarding Figure Reproduction
A paper I wrote was recently accepted for publication. In one of our figures, we report our results juxtaposed against results from another paper published in a different journal. To perform a ...
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Arxiv after acceptance
I had submitted a paper, say X-1, on a reputed Springer (Birkhauser) journal of our field. After two major revisions I received an Ad hoc email from the editor which says that the paper is accepted, ...
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If a journal publishes my article against my will, do they have the right to request a publication charge?
Three years ago, I submited my paper to a journal. On their website there was an impact factor. After submitting my work, I discovered that the stated impact factor is not official and the journal ...
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Is it ethical to share with students a book draft that the author no longer makes publicly available?
Several years ago I taught an upper-division Mathematics course at my former institution. In the course of preparing to teach the course, I discovered that a professor at another university had not ...
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Archiving homework answers from a class
I have taken a math class and answered homework questions from a text (FOAG by Ravi Vakil). Vakil himself stated it was ok to publish answers to questions from his text (although he would prefer that ...
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Plagiarism, ethics, software use, [closed]
I want to prepare video courses in the field of informatics sector such as programming, system administration, network administration, cyber security, etc.. and make profit them on Udemy, YouTube, etc....
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Is it allowed to publish an explanation of someone's thesis?
Last spring, I did a research project where I tried to develop code, modelling a physical system using a method developed by a researcher and presented as his PhD. thesis.
Now I have completed my work ...
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Can I publish a source code containing potential copyright violations that someone gave me at a university (updated)?
During my Ph.D. work at a university, I followed up on someone else's doctoral work (I am no longer associated with that university). This person provided me with the source code for his work. I ...
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Is it ethical to post an exam question and answer to the internet?
I am a private tutor for (mostly) high school maths and physics students.
Recently a student came to me with an elegant little problem that he had been given on an exam. The problem was very short, ...
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Can a cat be a co-author in academic paper? [duplicate]
One of the most famous cat physicians must be F. D. Willard, who co-authored many physical papers.
My question is simple:
Is it academically correct to have a cat/dog as a co-author of a paper, in ...
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Ownership of an Idea
Suppose that I am a PhD student that works as an RA in the lab of my PhD advisor. While I am in the lab, I come up with some interesting idea, and then I spend time reading and planning out a possible ...
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Posting what I learn and notes from my classes moral dilemma
So basically, I have my own personal site where I write about what I learn and study. I use it to write notes and details on what I am working on.
I specifically try to avoid posting anything ...
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Copyright and reference for explanatory diagram
I have a schematic diagram that I created and have used in a published peer-reviewed conference paper. It is not part of the method or the results for the paper, just an explanatory diagram giving ...
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Usage of Videos or Images from Youtube/ Google-images as data source
I'm working on a deep neural network research application Does usage of youtube videos or google images as data source cause a sharing-data, ethical, copyright or commercial problem? The aim of the ...
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Releasing crawled data: Potential legal challenge? [closed]
In many occasions in computer science I saw papers that analyze social network data also released these data, such as
http://socialnetworks.mpi-sws.org/data-imc2007.html
http://socialcomputing.asu....
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Can pre-print be published as "working paper" after the peer reviewed and revised manuscript has been accepted for publication by the journal?
A colleague wishes to publish a pre-print as a "working paper" after the revised manuscript has gone through the peer review process and accepted for publication.
The rationale is that firstly, ...
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Can a supervisor extend the paper and change the order of authors?
Background: In my area, people extend their conference paper to a journal version by adding only 30% contribution. This means that you get a second paper, with the same content (introduction, related ...
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Retyping some material to obscure source of a textbook with a solution manual?
This is my first time teaching mathematics. I've been giving lessons based on a certain textbook which contains excellent exercises (not just the exercises, but the order in which they appear leads ...
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How to obtain the files created by previous university researchers, both legally and physically? [closed]
I'm a post doc at a U.S. University. I need the files of a grad student research assistant who has left the lab. The student was a funded RA. The student created files (data, codes, simulations, ...
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Linking to printed books on archive.org
I am a postgrad PhD student. I occasionally participate in answering academic questions a Q & A site when I hit a block with getting on with my thesis.
I often cite a particular large and well-...
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Is it legal to share an electronic copy of a few book chapters?
I have scanned a few chapters of a textbook (about 10%) and I want to make the electronic files available to my classmates. The reason why I scanned the chapters initially was so that I could print ...
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Is it okay to keep pdfs of journal articles from my previous university when my current university does not have a subscription?
I've been wondering about this for some time. I did my PhD at the big university A. I had access to hundreds of online journals and ebooks. I was downloading papers and ebooks, classifying them, ...
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Is it okay to upload slides based on others papers?
In some seminar classes, one student presents a paper selected from top conferences or journals with the help of slides. Usually, there is a lot of discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the ...
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Is reproduction of copyrighted material in a research proposal fair use?
Say that I am writing a grant application to be submitted to a funding agency. The application is not a public document and so it will be only accessible to the review panel, the collaborators ...
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Should a scientific paper have copyright? [closed]
Should a scientific paper have copyright?
I guess not.
It seems to me that science and copyright are not compatible.
Let's say I wrote a very important paper in, say, cell biology.
Suppose I have ...
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What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement?
In this several times up-voted answer, it is suggested, among other things, that 'if someone using an image [...] that they do not own (it) is inappropriate and should be first reported to the PI of ...
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Is it legal and ethical to post my notes of a conference I am attending on my website?
I'm due to attend a conference soon, and plan to take notes on the talks I attend. My note-taking software of choice (org-mode) can easily export to HTML. Is it legal to post my notes on my website? ...
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Attaching reprints of published but copyrighted papers with job application
How wise and legal is it to attach my published but copyrighted papers with my job application or even put up on the personal (academic) website? I see a lot of people posting their papers that I ...
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How tightly enforced are open-access embargoes?
Many academic journals have copyright policies which forbid authors (possibly for a finite embargo time) to make their papers (either preprints, accepted manuscripts, or camera-ready versions) freely ...
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