eScholarship redesign launch - October 23, 2017

UCI Libraries is proud to announce a newly redesigned eScholarship launched Monday, October 23, 2017. 

The design changes include features to allow departments and research units to add customizations to their webpages, with additional graphics, links to data in DASH  or other repositories, and an update of research publications.  The new look to eScholarship improves search features across eScholarship, by campus or all material posted by UC authors.  eScholarship provides scholarly publishing and repository services that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.  eScholarship is a service of the Publishing Group of the California Digital Library.

eScholarship Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eScholarship/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/escholarship

American Chemical Society (ACS) letter to ResaerchGate - October 17, 2017

October 17, 2017 -- American Chemical Society (ACS) has sent a letter to ACS members about actions taken about author submissions to ResearchGate.

"Dear ACS Author:


I am writing to inform you about important aspects of copyright enforcement  actions that ACS is undertaking with regard to the venture­ capital backed content sharing network, ResearchGate. ResearchGate currently amasses, modifies and illegitimately distributes millions of copyrighted journal articles without permission or licence for its commercial gain. 

We do not take this action lightly and recognize the potential useful role ResearchGate has to play within the scientific communication ecosystem. At present, however, its business practices include the widespread distribution of intellectual property of others that it has illicitly amassed, largely in the form of copyrighted journal articles, in order to promote user traffic to its site in a fashion that undermines the integrity of scholarly publishing.

Attempts by ACS and other societies and publishers to agree with ResearchGate on an approach that would facilitate the sharing of published articles in a copyright­compliant manner have failed. While we recognize that ResearchGate has recently moved from public view a significant number of ACS copyrighted articles it has collected on its site, not all its infringing violations have been addressed. ResearchGate needs to take additional steps to cease its unauthorized use of copyrighted content for its commercial activities. "

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Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate - 5 October 2017

"Leading publishers are stepping up their fight against ResearchGate by ordering the academic social network to take down papers that they say infringe copyright.

"The move could see millions of articles removed from the site, as the publishers say up to 40 percent of papers on ResearchGate are copyrighted."

"James Milne, a spokesman for the group of five academic publishers, which includes Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, said that the first batch of take-down notices would be sent “imminently”.

“We’re not doing this in any way against the researchers, we’re doing this against ResearchGate,” he told Times Higher Education.  The site was “clearly hosting and happily uploading material that they know they don’t have the licence or copyrights” to, and was “refusing to work with us to solve that problem”, he added."

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