[Air-L] Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu

[Michael Zimmer]

"It’s always been so, because even though technically it’s in breach of the copyright transfer agreements that we blithely sign, everyone knows it’s right and proper. Preventing people from making their own work available would be insane..."

Whoever wrote this isn't very familiar with publisher copyright transfer agreements.


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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Director, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
w: www.michaelzimmer.org


On Dec 6, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Richard Forno <rforno at infowarrior.org> wrote:

> 
> FYI.....via Slashdot....
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> Elsevier is taking down papers from Academia.edu
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> December 6, 2013
> 
> Lots of researchers post PDFs of their own papers on their own web-sites. It’s always been so, because even though technically it’s in breach of the copyright transfer agreements that we blithely sign, everyone knows it’s right and proper. Preventing people from making their own work available would be insane, and the publisher that did it would be committing a PR gaffe of huge proportions.
> 
> Enter Elsevier, stage left. Bioinformatician Guy Leonard is just one of several people to have mentioned on Twitter this morning that Academia.edu took down their papers in response to a notice from Elsevier. Here’s a screengrab of the notification:
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> http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu/
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