Friday, October 6, 2017

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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