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Is it possible to share a CC-BY-licensed article on ResearchGate that contains copyrighted material?
My open-access Elsevier article (CC-BY 4.0) contains a third-party figure (from a Springer subscription book). I obtained permission and the caption correctly states that the copyright of the figure ...
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Why do "Author's Rights" in "Consent to Publish" agreements allow pre-print publications?
I have published in journal X and given them the rights to my work. In the "Author's Rights" clause, it says that I am allowed to post my work to pre-print servers (in the form immediately ...
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Making your code publicly available: Does it have to undergo review?
In cases when the authors would like to make their code available online after it is published, is it recommended for authors to make their code available for review when they submit technical papers ...
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Two figures are redrawn and merged into one. Are reproduction permissions required in this case? [closed]
I have two questions regarding writing of survey papers
Firstly, if one of the technical papers reviewed has a number of figures. Take for example: Figure 4 is "Data model" and Figure 8 is "Mechanism ...
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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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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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When to upload preprint (or abstract) to online repository?
I know that it depends on where I publish whether I am allowed to upload my paper to an online repository like ResearchGate (cf. here).
The question is, however, when I would upload the paper.
Can I ...
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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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Publishing vs. putting work online under a free license
Suppose a work (a book with abstract math research) is presented as LaTeX source under a copyleft license available at a public Git hosting service.
Will scientists be reluctant to cite such a work, ...
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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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Does putting an article I wrote on university site conflict with IEEE publishing rights?
I have published a few months ago a paper for an IEEE Conference, the paper got published and it is indexed in the IEEEXplore. I have received an email from a research coordinator at the university ...
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Does translating an article for a magazine require permission from the author?
Is translating an article (that could be found written in a popular science magazine or online in a science blog or personal webpage say) for a public newspaper or an online blog ...etc, requires ...
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How should I prepare e-prints (pre-prints and post-prints) of already published papers?
I am about to embark on the publication of pre-prints or post-prints of about a dozen papers that have already been published in peer-reviewed journals. I plan to use the SHERPA/RoMEO database to ...
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Can I submit published articles to arXiv as well?
I have several math research articles on my site.
Some of my articles are published in open access journals.
Some of my articles are currently available only from my site.
I may probably publish ...