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Does publishing a paper on arXiv prevent me from submitting it to a non-open access journal?
If I publish a pre-print paper on arXiv, how can I guarantee exclusive rights to the publisher afterwards? Am I unable to publish on non-open access journals after I publish a pre-print on arXiv ?
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Journal allows me to choose whether to transfer copyright – why would I do so?
I am a mathematics undergraduate in the USA. Recently I had a paper accepted to a math journal, and in the final steps of the process I had to fill out a “consent to publish” form, in which I had the ...
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Is it legal to add your publications to ResearchGate?
I recently created a profile on ResearchGate. And to add your publications list it requires you to upload the paper. Is it legal to upload published journal articles on public servers, where everyone ...
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Author wants to withdraw or insist on re-reviewing at proof stage of publication
I am editing a small scholarly journal published by a learned society. One of our authors, after his manuscript was finally accepted for publication and he had signed and returned the publishing ...
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How can Springer and Wiley put a 12 month embargo on posting post-review revisions to the arXiv and similar?
This question was inspired by the recent question on posting to Academia.edu.
The general copyright policy for Springer, as listed on SHERPA/RoMEO, is that one can post a pre-review version to the ...
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If my paper is accepted in a Springer journal, can I submit my version of the manuscript to arXiv immediately after acceptance?
I have read the Springer copyrights and self-archiving policy, but they are a bit confusing. For example in the first of them, you may find this:
Author may self-archive an author-created version ...
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Has anyone heard of the "Central Library of Medicine Foundation"?
I recently got a request for an article I'm a coauthor on, which reads:
Dear Dr. NAME REMOVED:
My name is Victoria Hornos and I am contacting you on behalf of the
Central Library of ...
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Is it okay to upload the PDF of my non-open access papers in academia.edu or research gate?
Is it legal to upload a PDF of my non-open-access papers to research networks, such as ResearchGATE and Academia.edu?
I am pretty sure that it could cause some problems, because normally people ...
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Is it legal to upload preprint on ResearchGate?
I have few papers already published in certain journals which cannot be uploaded on ResearchGate due to copyright issues, now is it legal to upload my own version of the paper formatted in LaTeX or in ...
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Consequences for publishing final-version PDF, in violation of publisher policies?
Are there consequences that are typically enforced when an author puts the publisher’s PDF on a personal website or social media (e.g. ResearchGate) in violation of the publisher’s policy? I see many ...
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How to deal with journals requesting incomplete / incorrect attribution for images taken from other sources?
I recently submitted an article containing several images from other publications. I made sure to give the appropriate attribution both for open access images (including stating e.g. CC BY 4.0), as ...
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Do journals have legal copyrights to the online supplemental information?
I have a paper in an biology journal (Wiley is the publisher) for which I would like to put a much more mathematical version on ArXiv, mainly the theorems and proofs located in the online supplement (...
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Does posting papers on Academia.edu count as publishing?
Does posting papers on websites such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate count as "publishing" for the sake of future journal submission? That is, if I have uploaded my paper to Academia.edu, can I later ...
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What exactly would count as copyright infringement in a replication paper?
I have been following the review process of a replication journal
In particular, it has an open review which can be seen.
On a particular submission they are having a debate about whether copying ...
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Copyright and ownership for rejected papers that are edited based on peer review
I submitted a paper to a journal and I got extensive reviews, and the paper was rejected, but they encouraged resubmission if I successfully did a bit more science and made other drastic revisions. ...
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