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Has a publisher ever taken action against a researcher hosting the final version of their own paper?
There's an old paper (15+ years) of mine, with average citation numbers. It's pay-walled.
I'd like to just post it on my web site, in its final version. Is this something I might regret?
Has a ...
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Copyright of infographs and where to deposit them?
Recently, a company designed infographs for some of our articles.
Infographs could be described as pictured one-page summaries of a research article. The head of the department paid for that service ...
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How long to get permission from publishers before reusing your works in the dissertation?
I have a few works published in the ASME and Elsevier. Those works will be my parts of the dissertation. I was wondering if anyone has experience in requesting permissions before reusing those in your ...
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how to indicate permission when reusing a figure from a published study [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to my previous question regarding the inclusion of a figure in my grant proposal.
I followed the necessary steps and obtained permission, which was granted free of charge. I ...
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Is it legal to post accepted manuscript to GitHub Pages if embargo has ended for personal website?
I have published my article with Taylor & Francis. For the respective journal, there is no embargo period concerning the publication of the accepted manuscript on the author's personal website - I ...
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Sci-hub and ResearchGate
Sci-hub and ResearchGate both provide (among other things) online access to journals that sit behind publisher paywalls. For example, I have just discovered, not unhappily, most of my own papers on ...
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How to release the copyright of a published book?
Nearly five years ago, I have published my book, and now I requested the publishing company to release the copyright and return it to me. They agreed as an exception, however, they want me to pay them ...
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Can a journal prohibit an author from releasing the article after the embargo in a public repository/website, such as ResearchGate?
A few days ago, I received an email from the IEEE copyright team informing me that one of my articles had been removed from my researchgate account due to a copyright violation. However, after the ...
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Copyrights on epigrams in a commercial publication of academic work [closed]
An acquaintance of mine - let's call him Robert - is having a book published based on his academic research. The book targets the general public, and the publication is commercial, albeit with a ...
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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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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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Are there universities where authors can/must transfer their copyright to the university for negotiations with publishers?
Say you are a researcher employed by a university and publishing your work in a closed-access journal, which asks you to sign a copyright transfer agreement. To simplify, let's say you are the only ...
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Using a figure from a PhD thesis, but changed slightly. Copyright?
I am using a figure from a PhD thesis in an IEEE conference paper.
I have changed it slightly, mainly by adding text.
Though I will cite the author and publication, do I still need to pay the (what ...
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Production team ignored me for over 30 days and went ahead to publish article (online, not yet in print) - what are my options?
Summary: My paper was accepted to a journal; I realized they missed a handful of edits (which do not alter the findings or conclusion) and emailed them right after to change these things. They ghosted ...
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I believe a publisher is infringing copyright when reproducing a figure I created. What can I do?
A few months ago an Elsevier representative contacted me asking for permission to reproduce one of my thesis figures in one of their books. Since this figure is only in my thesis (introduction section)...
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How do I check whether I retained copyright for a figure in a paper from ten years ago?
I have been contacted by a student who wants to reproduce a figure from a paper of mine in Phil Trans R Soc B (this one, in case it's pertinent) in their thesis. The paper itself is apparently not ...
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Finding high quality copyright free icons for computer diagrams in IEEE or ACM submission
I am a new graduate student in computer science and starting to submit papers to IEEE and ACM. I would like the diagrams to look as professional as possible. For example, if I am showing a digital ...
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May I upload the preprint version of my article to ResearchGate before publication?
Recently, I got an acceptance of a journal paper, where I am allowed to self-archive its preprint version in my own repository/website.
My question is whether I am allowed to upload it to RG before ...
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Publish collection of papers into a book?
I have a very general question. Say I have written 10 papers, published them independently in different journals over the years - could I then just take these papers and make a book out of them and ...
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After having published a paper, am I still free to use & distribute it as I wish?
Do I lose copyright if a journal accepts my paper and publishes it? Can I send my paper to colleagues, or is this technically illegal if they do not have access to the journal via their institution (...
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Authorised agent for joint authors in publication agreement
For the publication of a paper each of the joint authors needs to sign a publication agreement with the publisher. Instead, only one author can sign as an 'authorised agent for joint authors'. ...
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How can I post my own version of a published SPIE paper on arXiv?
SPIE policy for web posting of papers states the following:
SPIE grants to authors (and their employers) of papers, posters, and presentation recordings published in SPIE Proceedings or SPIE Journals ...
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Publishing a book based on long journal article
Recently my article has been accepted for future issue in a prestigious journal published by Jhon Wiley and sons. After accceptance of article I received an email from an other publisher based in ...
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What could be incentives for publishers to waive fees for reusing figures?
I'm in charge to obtain permissions to reuse figures from previous publications for our future work. Our publisher is a STM-signatory so for most journals there is little problem as their publisher ...
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Author states that he is owner of his photographs but they have been published in various journals
I'm editing a volume and I am responsible to obtain permissions for figures and photographs the authors wish to use in their respective chapters.
Now I have an author A who included several of his ...
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How to obtain a copy of my own article from an APS (American Physical Society) journal?
I recently published an article in one of the journals of the American Physical Society (APS). Our university library does not have a subscription to this particular journal, so I don't have access to ...
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Copyright-related advice for graphic designer creating content for academic publications
I'm in the following situation: I'm a researcher and hold a degree in life sciences. I also like graphic design and occasionally doodle up a figure to include in a report or such. I'm not a ...
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May authors opt-out of the proceedings of a conference?
Many conferences in my field (theoretical CS) are organised as follows. They are run by academics, as an endowement, scientific association, or some other not-for-profit organization. Each year, ...
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Chapter in printed thesis vs. journal article
My computer science PhD thesis contains a chapter which is heavily based on an already published conference paper. I have published my thesis online, and fulfilled the requirements for my degree this ...
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Do Nature journals wrongly claim copyright in their published pdfs?
I just noticed this and I'm slightly confused by a small detail.
The Nature Publishing Group states in its Publishing Licences page that the copyright on articles remains with the author:
NPG does ...
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Does a preprint include revisions made in response to peer review?
This is related to but not answered in this question about the difference between various stages of a manuscript in the publication process.
After an author has submitted a manuscript to a journal ...
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Why don't academics bypass restrictions on the distribution of their papers the same way as an institutional open access policy seems to do?
I've learned that academics can ensure that their papers can be freely distributed, even when those papers are published at places that require transferring copyright, simply by granting a ...
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Do publishers simply waive their exclusive rights without any resistance?
Assumption based upon my experience from CS: Typically, the business model of academic publishers is to archive and disseminate papers whose authors have transferred exclusive publication rights to ...
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How often do publishers sue researchers for copyright infringement for putting their articles on a personal website?
I know that some publishers sometimes send copyright infringement emails to researchers putting their articles on a personal website. How often do publishers actually sue researchers for copyright ...
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Are academic questions (used in textbooks etc.) owned by the publisher, or is anyone able to use them in their own content?
I am wondering whether mathematical and scientific questions (or any type of question to be honest) is considered to be owned by the publisher? For example, if I see a math question in a textbook, am ...
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What does assigning the copyright of a paper mean?
I have been reading that a publisher called WIT Press has the following copyright agreement:
http://www.icsis.org/WITcopyright.pdf
It has one part that says:
We will not withhold permission for ...
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Do any scientific publishers have a stated commitment to authors regarding copyright infringement?
Within the debate of whether science should move to an Open Access / CC-license scheme, or remain with a more traditional scheme where the authors transfer copyright to the publisher, one argument ...
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How can we find who owns an old book's copyright?
How can we find who owns an old book's copyright today, especially if the publishing company who printed said book no longer exists? This would also apply for other (non-book) publications.
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What are the publisher's obligations when a research paper's term of copyright ends?
When a research paper's term of copyright ends, say, N years after publication, does the publication house have to make it freely (i.e. no cost) available for use by general public? Assume that ...
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