Questions tagged [copyright]
Copyright issues: publication agreements, copyright transfer upon publication, legal status of work-for-hire in academia, etc.
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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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Is it necessary to obtain permissions for copying figures from published articles in your proposal/dissertation?
I am currently writing a proposal for my research topic and I want to copy figures from published articles into my proposal document. To put it in perspective, almost all the copied figures are to go ...
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Does a journal retracting a paper also renounce copyright?
Every now and then, a journal retracts a paper for some reason or another. I'm wondering what impact retraction has on copyright, assuming the journal (or its publisher) was given its copyright.
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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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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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How can I "time-stamp" my data without publishing it?
If I have a DB or set of data, and want to grant access to it to a limited group of experts in a field (not general access), and don't want others using it for their own publications, nor seeing the ...
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How to preserve a rare version of a book respecting the copyright as well?
Electromagnetism by EM Purcell is a classic book on electromagnetism. Luckily in my college library I found all the three editions of this book. After many months of observation, I found that the ...
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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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Private company using my dissertation [closed]
Context: I work for a small private company in the US energy sector. Recently, my colleague found an application opportunity for the tool I developed as my PhD dissertation. We tested it out with a ...
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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 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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Is it okay to upload code I wrote for replicating someone else’s simulation study?
I have code I wrote to replicate a simulation study by another author. Is it okay to publicly upload this in my code repository?
This will include:
code (my work, based on the author’s description in ...
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My code is published as original work by a different group. What should I do?
I've found some code that I've posted online that has a BSD license published in a supplementary material of a different group in a high impact journal. The authors have replaced the name on the ...
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